Chapter 6. Magic Power
Chapter 6. The Censor and Auctoritas Abstract If the Roman magistrate with specifically normative functions is called censor and if the senators whom he enrolls formally register their authoritative opinion by saying “censeo,” this is because the IE *kens– strictly meant “to affirm a truth (which becomes law) with authority.” This authority—auctoritas—with which a man must be invested for his utterances to have the force of law is not, as… Read more