joanna bujes wrote:
>>U.S. stops somewhere short of the power over his _familio_ exercised by
>>a Roman Pater Famillius (I think I've got my declensions wrong).
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>It's "familia", not that it matters all that much.
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>Joanna
And it's pater familias [_familiae_ is grammatically correct but my better half's dictionary says that the archaic _familias_ is idiomatic], not that it matters, either.
--Tim F-W