Quote Originally Posted by Epistolary Richard
Actually, Victoria was Empress of India as well. If we're going to talk semantics, then as we all know the word Empire is derived from Emperor, which comes from the Latin Imperator which was originally used to solely to describe a General and only crossed over to the origins of its current meaning because of Augustus.

Given that Empire from a latin word which didn't even have the same meaning in this period as it does today, I think we should trust that the Ancient Greek phrase used conveys the nature of the Seleucid state just as accurately, if not more so, than any of the alternatives.
That is all swell, but we're talking about the British Empire here, not the Indian one, a title created because ol' Vicky was jealous of her nephew being Kaiser and all.



~Wiz