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senatus

  • noun
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senatus, the senate, senators. The treatment of this word in the translation of Orosius is somewhat exceptional. The Latin form senatus occurs in the nom. and acc. , but in the former senatas, senatum, and in the latter senatum, senatos are also used; in the gen. senatuses, senatusa are found, and in the dat. senatum; in every case but one (?) the word is plural. The Latin senator is also used, though the word
witan is generally employed to denote the senators
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  • Sceoldon ealle hiera senatus (senatas,

      Bos. 43, 5) cuman . . . sceoldon hiera senatus (-as) rídan, . Ors. 2, 4; Swt. 70, 24, 28.
  • Ealle heora senatus

    senatores,

      4, 9 ; Swt. 190, 19.
  • Ealle ða senatus

    omnis senatus,

      5, 12; Swt. 240, 13.
  • Ðá wolde án (woldan, Bos. 70, 36) senatus hiene áweorpan . . . Ðá bæd his fæder ðæt ða senatum (

    altered to senatus in other MSS. )

    forgeáfen ðæm suna ðone gylt,
      3, 10 ; Swt. 140, 14-16.
  • Se consul bæd ðætte senatus him fultum sealdon,

      4, 9; Swt. 192, 22.
  • Ða senatus him hæfden ða dǽd forboden . . . Ne mehten ða senatus nǽnne consul under him findan,

      4, 10; Swt. 196, 7 — 10.
  • Búton his ágnum fultume and búton ðara senatuses,

      5, 12; Swt. 242, 1.
  • Hé forneáh nánne ðara senatusa ne lét cucne plurimos senatorum ad mortem coegit, 6, 2 ; Swt. 256, 1. (Cf. Ðara senatornm xxxv

    triginta quinque senatores,

      6, 4; Swt. 260, 23 : 6, 14; Swt. 268, 28. ) Hé
    sende tó ðǽm senatum ðæt hé ðæt irre gesette wið hié, 4, 11; Swt. 206, 26: 2, 6; Swt. 88, 12.
  • Hé hit sǽde ðǽm senatum, ða wurdon hié alle wið hiene wiðerwearde

    senatus indignations motus,

      6, 2 ; Swt. 254, 25: 5, 12 ; Swt. 244, 16.
  • Romulus gesette senatum,

      2, 4; Swt. 70, 36.
  • Ðéh hé hit wið ða senatus hǽle,

      4, 10 ; Swt. 196, 16.
  • Hé sette senatus,

      5, 12; Swt. 242, 28.
  • Ðæt hé sprǽce wið ða senatos (-us

    other MSS.

    ),
      4, 11; Swt. 206, , 29: 4, 13; Swt. 210, 16: 5, 5; Swt. 226, 16.
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  • senatus, n.