| In Rome, military law derived from the imperium of magistrates in their capacity as commanders of the Roman military forces. |
| There is Latin itself, which ultimately failed to outlive the imperium and which slowly transmuted into the vernacular Romance languages. |
| That is to say, unless the possessor has explicit authority from a person in whom is bestowed imperium, there is no right of possession. |
| Can it lay the ghost of the Roman imperium and become something other than a male gerontocracy? |
| In 18 he was given tribunician power for five years, a power held otherwise only by Augustus, and his imperium was renewed for the same period. |
| New pastures full of scarecrows and glistening barbed razor wire and crisscrossing pipelines pumping petrodollars into the pockets of imperium. |
