# Talk:Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant

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The word 'Imperator' does not appear anywhere in this article except in the title. What's the deal? What does it mean?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Benmachine (talk • contribs) 13:44, 20 February 2011 (UTC) 

It's Latin for emperor. --Akhilleus (talk) 05:47, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Why isn't this explained in the article? Why is it used in the title but not the body? --benmachine (talk) 22:44, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
If there are no objections, I will fix this. The article name should be reflected in the article head. 108.1.73.172 (talk) 02:11, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

So in 1939, one Classicist showed that this was just a modern myth or misunderstanding of the sources; when did this myth first emerge? The title of Jean-Léon Gérôme's painting shows that this belief was common by the 1850s -- but did it become a common belief in the earlier 19th century? Or the 18th century, when a renewed interest in the Classical World burst forth? Or perhaps even earlier? (FWIW, I looked through the obvious parts of Edward Gibbon's influential work, but failed to find any allusion to it. Which doesn't mean anything; his Decline & Fall is a lengthy work, & he might have explicitly alluded to this saying in a less obvious passage unrelated to the first centuries of the Roman Empire.) -- llywrch (talk) 06:07, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

I believe these myths date back to the late 18th century, with the rise of republicanism and then imperialism linked as you say to renewed interest in the classical world.  See also Roman salute.--Work permit (talk) 07:50, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

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While I happen to find apexes more æsthetically pleasing, my understanding is that macrons are more conventional in the orthography of Latin in our time. Should I or someone change the acute diacritics in the quoted Latin text to macrons? Ellenor2000 (talk) 00:12, 2 March 2025 (UTC)