I’d have to disagree there. The Roman notion of imperium is a legal concept; the ‘extent’ of one’s authority.
Roman notions of intersecting governments and gods is more along the lines of the pax deorum - ‘the peace of the gods’. The thinking there being that governments had a certain ‘contract’ with the gods, to respect and honor them, and in turn, be granted the boon of a stable and peaceful land.
The similarity I see is that not being able to wield the authority granted by either concept is proof enough that you don’t have that authority in the first place.
I’d have to disagree there. The Roman notion of imperium is a legal concept; the ‘extent’ of one’s authority.
Roman notions of intersecting governments and gods is more along the lines of the pax deorum - ‘the peace of the gods’. The thinking there being that governments had a certain ‘contract’ with the gods, to respect and honor them, and in turn, be granted the boon of a stable and peaceful land.
The similarity I see is that not being able to wield the authority granted by either concept is proof enough that you don’t have that authority in the first place.