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Learn Hardcore Latin: auctoritas - the authority

Hardcore Latin
/Lesson 47
/auctoritas

auctoritas

Word

auctoritas

Meaning

the authority

Part of speech

noun

Pronunciation

Course

Lesson

Usages of auctoritas

Senator prudens suadet ut cives auctoritatem legis plus quam rumorem sequantur.

A wise senator advises that the citizens follow the authority of the law more than rumor.

Quamquam tribunus magnam potestatem habet, dicit se sine auctoritate senatus nihil facere velle.

Although the tribune has great power, he says that he wants to do nothing without the authority of the senate.

Cum matri non placeret illa opinio, filia tamen auctoritati magistri confidebat.

Since that opinion did not please the mother, the daughter nevertheless trusted the teacher’s authority.

Femina prudens dicit auctoritatem veram non ex sola potestate, sed ex fide civium nasci.

A prudent woman says that true authority is born not from power alone, but from the trust of the citizens.

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