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S.P.Q.R.
abbreviation for
- the Senate and People of Rome.
SPQR
abbreviation for
- Senatus Populusque Romanus
Word History and Origins
Origin of S.P.Q.R.1
Word History and Origins
Origin of S.P.Q.R.1
Example Sentences
He secured the involvement of Mary Beard, an author and Cambridge professor who made the topic of Rome a best seller with the book “S.P.Q.R.,” getting her to record an acoustiguide and videos.
Embroidered in faded gold along the canvas was S.P.Q.R.
The second bore a standard with the letters S.P.Q.R. on any enterprise undertaken in the name of the church and the people of Rome, and also at ceremonies, processions, &c.
Such processions are headed by the standard of the Commune, S.P.Q.R. upon a red and yellow ground, and immediately behind follows the banner of the Monti, the first region, three green hills on a white field.
Yet the version which renders S.P.Q.R. into Si Peu Que Rien must surely be laid at the door of "Gallicanism"—it points to an ecclesiastical not a political diminutio capitis.
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