RPW@Cy wrote:
I'm afraid you're having a memoryo - it was the title "Emperor" (imperator in Latin) that was of Roman origin, because they forbade the title King for the same reason as we forbade titled nobility - bad experience.
No, I'm not. "Majesty" was a term that originally applied to the authority of the republic itself, which got transferred to the emperor when the emperor assumed in his person the embodiment of state authority - it's from this that it's use as a royal title comes. From Wikipedia -
"Originally, during the
Roman republic, the word
maiestas was the legal term for the supreme status and dignity of the state, to be respected above everything else. This was crucially defined by the existence of a specific crime, called
laesa maiestas, literally "Violated Majesty" (in English law
Lese majesty, via the French Lèse-majesté), consisting of the violation of this supreme status. Various acts such as celebrating a party on a day of public mourning, contempt of the various rites of the state and disloyalty in word or act were punished as crimes against the majesty of the republic. However, later, under the
Empire, it came to mean an offence against the dignity of the
Emperor."