populi

• IPA^(key): /poˈpuli/

populi

1. plural of populo

populi

1. plural of popul

populī m

1. inflection of populus (“people, nation”):
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular

• “populi”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• populi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) the plague breaks out in the city: pestilentia (not pestis) in urbem (populum) invadit
    
  • (ambiguous) to write a history of Rome: res populi Romani perscribere
    
  • (ambiguous) to have an appreciative audience: populum facilem, aequum habere
    
  • (ambiguous) to address a meeting of the people: verba facere apud populum, in contione
    
  • (ambiguous) the dregs of the people: faex populi, plebis, civitatis
    
  • (ambiguous) to summon an assembly of the people: convocare populi concilium and populum ad concilium
    
  • (ambiguous) to propose a law in the popular assembly: legem ferre or simply ferre ad populum, ut...
    
  • (ambiguous) to formally propose a law to the people: legem rogare or rogare populum (cf. sect. XVI. 4, note Aulus Gellius...)
    
  • (ambiguous) popular favour; popularity: populi favor, gratia popularis
    
  • (ambiguous) to court popularity: gratiam populi quaerere
    
  • (ambiguous) public opinion: existimatio populi, hominum
    
  • (ambiguous) unpopularity: offensio populi, popularis
    
  • (ambiguous) unpopularity: offensa populi voluntas
    
  • (ambiguous) democracy: imperium populi or populare, civitas or res publica popularis
    
  • (ambiguous) to be a leading spirit of the popular cause: populi causam agere
    
  • (ambiguous) to enslave a free people: liberum populum servitute afficere
    
  • (ambiguous) to grant a people its independence: populum liberum esse, libertate uti, sui iuris esse pati
    
  • (ambiguous) the censors hold a census of the people: censores censent populum
    
  • (ambiguous) to appeal to the people: provocare ad populum (Liv. 2. 55)
    
  • (ambiguous) a matter is referred (for decision) from the senate to the people: a senatu res ad populum reicitur
    
  • (ambiguous) to be on friendly terms with the Roman people: in amicitia populi Romani esse (Liv. 22. 37)
    
  • (ambiguous) to reduce a country to subjection to oneself: populum in potestatem suam redigere (B. G. 2. 34)
    
  • (ambiguous) to reduce a country to subjection to oneself: populum in deditionem venire cogere
    
  • (ambiguous) to accept the submission of a people: populum in deditionem accipere
    
  • (ambiguous) to subjugate a nation: populum perdomare, subigere
    
  • (ambiguous) to make oneself master of a people, country: populum, terram suo imperio, suae potestati subicere (not sibi by itself)
    
  • (ambiguous) Asia was made subject to Rome: Asia populi Romani facta est
    
• “populi”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly