office
Pater Patriae
Father of the Fatherland
also: pater patriae, Father of the Fatherland
'Father of the Fatherland,' the most honorific of imperial titles, voted by the senate; Pliny stresses that Trajan long declined it before accepting.
Reading notes
- Panegyric to Trajan §21 Father of the Fatherland
Pater Patriae, the supreme honorific title voted by the senate to emperors (and once to Cicero); Pliny makes much of Trajan's long refusal of it.