Meaning of regnum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. royal power, power, control, reign
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2. kingdom, realm, throne
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3. kingship, royalty
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4. in a negative sense: despotism, tyranny, aspiring to or seeking the throne or royal power during the Roman Republic
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Equivalents

Examples

“Sum sine rēgnō.”

I am without a kingdom.

“Templa Iovī centum lātīs immānia rēgnīs, centum ārās posuit …. [Iarbas] in his far-reaching realms had built a hundred great temples, a hundred altars, for Jupiter. (See: Iarbas, Iovi.)”

“‘quī modo, sī volucrēs habuissem rēgna iubentēs,”

“I who just now, if I would have had the bird-omens ordaining kingship, I might have been able to be the greatest among my people.” (The ghost of Remus laments how the auspices or bird-omens instead favored his brother Romulus to be king; see Romulus and Remus.)

“vīxit, ut occīderet damnātus crīmine rēgnī: hunc illī titulum longa senecta dabat. He lived, that he might die, having been condemned in the crime of [aspiring to] royal power: This [is] the title that was given him in old age. (See: Marcus Manlius Capitolinus.)”

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