par-, para-

Etymology: from Old French apareillier, from Vulgar Latin appariculare, from Latin apparare "to prepare, to make ready".

Hail, Caesar, they who are about to die salute you.

Spoken to Claudius by gladiators prior to entering the arena to fight. This may have been a sarcastic salutation.

Suetonius tells us in his Lives of the Caesars that Emperor Claudius (A.D. 41-A.D. 54) so enjoyed these spectacles, he ordered that even those who fell accidentally be put to death. He wanted to watch their faces as they died.

A natural parent.

Divide and rule.

1. A reference to the policy of stirring up dissension and rivalries within the ranks of one's enemies, as Caesar did in Gaul and elsewhere.

2. This ancient political maxim, adopted by Machiavelli, is also given as Divide ut regnes and as Divide ut imperes, all of which mean "divide [the opposition] in order to rule" or "divide and conquer".

I am the king of Rome and above grammar.

Words spoken by the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund at the Council of Constance (1414-1418) when a cardinal corrected his Latin.

1. The male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire; such as, the emperors of Rome.
2. Etymology: from Old French empereor, French empereur from Latin imperatorem,"ruler, commander, emperor", from imperatus, "to command", from im-, "in" and parare, "to prepare".

Etymology: from Old French empire, "imperial rule", from Latim imperium "rule, command", from imperare, "to command" from im-, "in" + parare, "to order, prepare".

Time irretrievably is flying.

Another version is, "We cannot stop time in its tracks." The shorter Tempus fugit is taken from the longer Fugit irreparabile tempus itself a slightly shortened form of a line from Virgil's Georgics.