GOVERNMENT Copy link • GOVERNMENTThe governing, gubematio: moderatio (e.g., reipublicae): administratio (the administration, power of carrying on; e.g., belli, war): procuratio (the administration of business during the absence of anybody; e.g., alienorum bonorum): functio (office or duty devolving on anybody): auctoritas (authority or command of a superior, with reference to the obedience of an inferior): summa imperii: rerum ditio: principatus: tyrannis [Vid: COMMAND]. As state of ruling, potestas: dominatio: regnum (Vid. DOMINION, DOMINATION]. To be under the government of others or another, alieni arbitrii esse: to have the government of [Vid: To GOVERN]: to assume or seize the government, rerum potiri; imperium, or regnum, or dominatum, or tyrannidem occupare: not to submit to anybody’s government, alicujus imperium detrectare; alicujus nutum ditionemque respuere: to offer the government to anybody, alicui regnum deferre; alicui regnum ac diadema deferre (Hor., Od., 2, 2, 22); imperium or regnum alicui tradere: to live under a just and lenient government, justo et miti imperio regi: to submit to the government of anybody, se sub alicujus potestatem subjicere (Auct., Herenn., 2, 31, init.). The seat of government, *curia reipublicae: the form of government, imperii or reipublicae forma; reipublicae ratio or status (i. e., the peculiar constitution of the state); reipublicae species (the peculiar kind of government): the system of government, or on which it is carried on, *imperii tenendi or reipublicae administrandae ratio: at the expense of government, sumtu publico or publice: on the part of the government, consilio publico; publice: an absolute government, *civitas in qua summa imperii apud unum est: a representative or constitutional government, *civitas, quae convocandis ad comitia civium ordinibus ferendisque ex illorum arbitratu legibus popularem quandam formam induit. IMPROPR., The government of one’s passions, tongue, etc. [Vid. CONTROL, s.] . The members, collectively taken, constituting the government, *qui praepositi sunt toti reipublicae administrandae: *qui praefecti sunt rebus publicis: *rerum publicarum curatores.