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imperium in imperio: an order within an order: Group of people who owe utmost fealty to their leader(s), subordinating the interests of the larger group to the authority of the internal group's leader(s). A "fifth column" organization operating against the organization within which they seemingly reside. "State within a state" imperium sine fine
The papers delivered on this occasion, including those by eminent scholars such as T.P. Wiseman, Erich S. Gruen, and Ernst Badian, later formed the basis of the honorific volume Imperium Sine Fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic, edited by J. Linderski. [7]
The Latin phrase imperium sine fine ("empire without end" [50]) expressed the ideology that neither time nor space limited the Empire. In Virgil's Aeneid, limitless empire is said to be granted to the Romans by Jupiter. [51]
In the constitution of ancient Rome, the lex curiata de imperio (plural leges curiatae) was the law confirming the rights of higher magistrates to hold power, or imperium.In theory, it was passed by the comitia curiata, which was also the source for leges curiatae pertaining to Roman adoption.
o.s.p.m.s. (obiit sine prole mascula superstite = died without surviving male issue). o.v.m. ( obiit vita matris = died in the lifetime of their mother; used in the case of a child predeceasing an heiress)
sine honoris titulo: without honorary title: Addressing oneself to someone whose title is unknown. sine labore non erit panis in ore: without labour there will be no bread in mouth: sine loco (s.l.) without a place: Used in bibliographies to indicate that the place of publication of a document is unknown. sine metu "without fear" Motto of ...
Thus, even if the empire's ideology and propaganda was expansionist (the slogan imperium sine fine- "empire without limits" - was common), its policy was in reality generally non-expansionist. As regards Luttwak's defence-in-depth theory itself, there appears to be insufficient clearcut evidence to support it and massive evidence against it.
nulla dies sine linea: Not a day without a line drawn: Pliny the Elder attributes this maxim to Apelles, an ancient Greek artist. nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo: No day shall erase you from the memory of time: From Virgil's Aeneid, Book IX, line 447, on the episode of Nisus and Euryalus. nulla poena sine lege: no penalty without a law