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In the ixth and xth Books of his De Trinitate Hilary refers to this, and says that the Father is called ` greater 'propter auctoritatem, meaning by auctoritas not power, but what the Greeks understand by aitiotes, causation, principle or authorship of being.
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Quicquid ubique bene dictum facio meum, et illud nunc meis ad compendium, nunc ad fidem et auctoritatem alienis exprimo verbis, omnes auctores meos clientes esse arbitror, &c. Sarisburiensis ad Polycrat. prol.
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Deus, qui illam partem sacræ paginæ ad solennem Dei cultum pertinentem, psalmos scilicet, et hymnos: cæteraque ejusmodi perpetuis ecclesiæ usibus inservitura, transmitterent hominibus, et auctoritatem quandam conciliarent.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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Ille ubi accepit homines claros, quorum auctoritatem
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Sanction is hateful to the Papal See, "utpote quæ _in seditione_ et schismatis tempore ... nata est; et quæ, dum _tibi, a quo sacræ leges oriuntur et manant_, quantamlibet eripit auctoritatem, _omne jus et omnem legem dissolvit_."
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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HABET, the reading of most manuscripts, does not account for FERET, but is in itself acceptable enough; compare _Her_ XVI 59-60 'ecce pedum pulsu uisa est mihi terra moueri --/uera loquar ueri [_Heinsius_: uero _codd_] uix _habitura fidem_' and Cic _Flac_ 21 'sed fuerint incorruptae litterae domi; nunc uero quam _habere_ auctoritatem aut quam _fidem_ possunt?'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Hanc igitur auctoritatem secutus quod a te inter secreta otia didiceram transferre in actum publicae administrationis optaui.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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* Quoniam non desunt vitiorum assertores blandi et indulgentes patroni qui praestant vitiis auctoritatem et quod est deterius censuram scripturarum caelestium in advocationem criminum convertunt: [1731] 1
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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Tria sunt praecipua quae nominantur oecumenica, sive universalia et authentica, id est, habentia auctoritatem et non indigentia demonstratione aut probatione, videlicet Symbolum
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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Luther: "We have hitherto followed your authority, _tuam secuti hactenus auctoritatem, _" and now, says Melanchthon, Luther should also let him know how much could be yielded to the opponents.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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