There are other fragments the significance of which is political rather than ethical, as for instance the following:- Omnes qui tam quam nos severo serviunt Imperio callent dominum Imperia metuere.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
But in many towns, outside the town population properly speaking, outside the patrician families who generally governed the Rath, outside the guilds, outside the city organization altogether, there were other bodies dwelling within the walls and forming Imperia in imperiis.
"German Culture Past and Present"
Ernest Belfort Bax
But visible distress was on one countenance, and Hildegarde, charitable, refrained from looking at her cousin, when Imperia exclaimed, "Why, here is Blanche Van Dene!
"Hildegarde's Harvest"
Laura E. Richards