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That such was the custom of the Romans on these occasions appears from passages of Suetonius and Dio Cassius: "Pattrem familias canibus objecit, cure hoc titulo, Impie locutus parmularius." Suet. Domit. cap. x. And in Dio Cassius we have the following: "Having led him through the midst of the court or assembly, with a writing signifying the cause of his death, and afterwards crucifying him." Ib.
When we landed at their villages many continued their occupations and paid no attention to strangers. Above Gorin a Goldee gentleman took me into his house, where a woman placed a mat on the divan and motioned me to a seat. The man tendered me a piece of dried fish, which I ate out of courtesy to my hosts. Several children gathered to look at me, but retired on a gesture from pater familias.
Such complaints remind one of an ancient pater familias who insists on having his children and his grandchildren under the old paternal roof, and then grumbles because the butcher's bill is high. Those who will keep large households and bountiful tables should not be afraid of facing the butcher's bill or unhappy at the tonnage of the coal.
And Otto lay dead under the stars that night dead of an ideal, which is that a man must leave his family and all that he loves and follow the beckoning finger of empire. "For king and country!" The Commandant said that when a German soldier surrenders he throws down his gun, takes off his helmet and jerks off his shoulder straps, saying over and over, "Pater familias."
In every relation of life in which the collective community might have occasion to avail itself of his wisdom and strength, for all purposes of counsel or of war, the filius familias, or Son under Power, was as free as his father. It was a maxim of Roman jurisprudence that the Patria Potestas did not extend to the Jus Publicum.
He could not demand back the bill from her, nor could he explain to her the compromising origin of that document. And in addition to that, he must play the part of dignified pater familias which his wife had assigned to him in this domestic drama, instead of that of first lover which was so much more to his liking. "All right, Henrietta," said he, assuming a calmness he was far from feeling.
REGEBAT: the pater familias in early Roman times was an almost irresponsible ruler over his children and household. For a full discussion of the patria potestas see Coulanges, Ancient City, Bk. ET ... SENEX: 'though both blind and old'. INTENTUM: commonly used of animus, like the opposite remissus . TENEBAT etc.: the patria potestas is often denoted by the word imperium; cf.
At this moment the portal of the lodge was furtively opened about half an inch, and a very small segment of ashen-coloured human face, containing a large and apprehensive eye, was shown in the aperture. "Are you alone?" said the hollow voice of Mr. Sagittarius. "Quite, quite alone," said the Prophet, reassuringly. "It's all right, pater familias!" cried Capricornus.
When you meet your adorable 'bisc' in society, with a wife hanging on his arm, when as pater familias he convoys his flock of small children who tread on your toes at the chrysanthemum shows, what then? You are shocked?" "Indeed, I am pained. I can scarcely recognize the Alma of old." "Wait one moment, I have the floor.
Over sons and grandsons who were -in potestate- the power of the -pater familias- subsisted concurrently with the royal jurisdiction; that power, however, was not a jurisdiction in the proper sense of the term, but simply a consequence of the father's inherent right of property in his children.
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