He also played a major role in the demise of the Roman republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. But was Julius Caesar a bad guy or a good guy? Was the intelligent and energetic Julius Caesar only a cover-up for what was really a driven, power hungry and cunning man? Or was he ...
英文词源 dictator (n.) late 14c., from Latindictator, agent noun fromdictare(seedictate(v.)). Transferred sense of "one who has absolute power or authority" in any sphere is from c. 1600. In Latin use, adictatorwas a judge in the Roman republic temporarily invested with absolute power...
1600. In Latin use, a dictator was a judge in the Roman republic temporarily invested with absolute power.双语例句1. They believe that the country needs a benevolent dictator. 他们认为国家需要一位仁爱的独裁者。 来自柯林斯例句 2. She was a dictator and a demon. 她是一个独裁者,一个女...
Cato之所以能成为共和国的大英雄,一部分原因来源于帝国时期元老院阶层对共和国的romantic nostalgia. Cicero对Cato有句搞笑但也不无道理的评价,"he talks as if he were in the Republic of Plato, when in fact he is in the crap of Romulus."
1.A Roman magistrate with temporary extraordinary powers, such as in time of national crisis. By the time of Sulla and Julius Caesar it had come to mean an extraconstitutional office with unlimited powers for an unspecified duration. 2.A ruler whose power is unlimited and is not challenged by...
To make it in the Roman Republic, a young man would be at a significant advantage if he could rely on the backing and reputation of his influential family. Very few made it as anovus homo(a ‘new man’);Cicerowas a notable exception. Sulla’s own family existed in the rarefied stratos...
The word originated as the title of a magistrate in ancient Rome appointed by the Senate to rule the republic in times of emergency (see Roman dictator and justitium).Like the term tyrant, originally a respectable Ancient Greek title, and to a lesser degree autocrat, it came to be used ...
Dictator, a single person who possesses absolute political power within a country or territory or a member of a small group that exercises such power. Dictators usually resort to force or fraud to gain power, which they maintain through the use of intimi
ruled by dictators are called dictatorships. First applied to magistrates of the ancientRoman Republicwho were granted extraordinary powers temporarily to deal with emergencies, modern dictators from Adolf Hitler to Kim Jong-un, are considered some of the most ruthless and dangerous rulers in history...
the state for a limited period of time, usually in times of crisis. It did not have a negative meaning then. So that’s the only real world example I can think of where “dictator” wouldn’t have a negative meaning (“Cincinnatus was appointeddictatorof the Roman Republic in 458 BC”...