• REIGN

1. s. regnum (unlimited power in a country, especially that of a monarch; at Rome, after the expulsion of the kings, it denoted despotic rule): imperium (the supreme authority of any commander; at Rome, in the time of the emperors, it denoted their reign; over anybody, in aliquem): dominatio: dominatus (with reference to the unconditional subjection of those over whom the authority extended). To begin his reign, diadema accipere: imperium inire or auspicari (post-Augustan): regnare coepisse: in anybody’s reign, aliquo imperante or regnante: aliquo imperatore or rege: at the beginning of his reign, inter initia regni: in the first year of his reign, eo, quo regnare primum coepit, anno: shortly before the reign of Dionysius, paulo ante, quam regnare coepit Dionysius: the first year of anybody’s reign, primus imperii dies; of my reign, dies imperii mei.

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• v. PROP., imperium tenere, imperare (general term, to be a sovereign or ruler): summae rerum praeesse (Liv.): sedere ad clavum, ad gubernacula (to be at the head of affairs. ☞ Avoid regere without an object): regnare (especially as a despotic prince). To reign over anybody, alicui imperare: imperium or dominationem habere in aliquem: over a country, imperium alicujus terrae obtinere (☞ dominari in aliquem = to tyrannize over him): the reigning prince, qui nunc praeest civitati; qui nunc est in magistratu: the reigning family, regum domus (domus regnatrix, Tac., Ann., 1, 4).
• ImPROP., Vid: RULE.