One of the basic questions of the historical semantics of the political is that of the connection between system and language change. In their examination of this question, the authors of the anthology examine exemplarily whether and if, to what extent there were semantic struggles during the transition from the Roman Republic to the monarchy. In such semantic battles, language and politics change at the same time. In the case of the Roman transformation process, the authors of the volume come to an extremely differentiated finding: some areas of political semantics were highly politically charged. On the one hand, this made them effective themselves, but at the same time changed in the course of these discourses. Other concepts and terms, on the other hand, remained stable in their core meaning and outlived the transformation phase.