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Princeps

princeps

also: princeps, prince, the principate

The princeps ('first citizen'), the emperor's constitutional title under the early empire; the principate is the regime he heads. Pliny insists the title means fellow-citizen and father, not master.

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Panegyric to Trajan speeches · 79 mentions
The Letters letters · 21 mentions

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