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Academically, the philosophers of the thirteenth century are known as magistri, or masters; historically, however, they are Scholastics, and continue to be so designated until the end of the medieval period.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Peter of Spain has been established as the medieval author of a work that became widely known as Summule logicales magistri Petri Hispani (Collection of Logic Matters of Master Peter of Spain).
Peter of Spain Spruyt, Joke 2007
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Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri and consequently had at all times the invaluable privilege of abusing what was being done, whether by one side or by the other.
The Way We Live Now 2004
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It was afterwards propagated by grammarians who defined it as blind men do, and who swore in verba magistri.
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And the same Cicero doth excuse and expound the philosophers for going too far and being too exact in their prescripts when he saith, Isti ipse praeceptores virtutis et magistri videntur fines officiorum paulo longius quam natura vellet protulisse, ut cum ad ultimum animo contendissemus, ibi tamen, ubi oportet, consisteremus: and yet himself might have said, Monitis sum minor ipse meis; for it was his own fault, though not in so extreme a degree.
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De manu beati Iacobi, super qua nobis scripsistis, in ore magistri Hereberti & Guilielmi Clerici nostri verbum posuimus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Regis de Poleyn inter c鎡eros ibi perempto, qui aduersarius nostri fuit Obsessumque fuit castrum dict� Ciuitatis per quinque hebdomadas: Sed propter infirmitates, quibus vexabatur exercitus magistri de Pruys & de Lifland noluerunt diuti鵶 expectare.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I may not always think on various points exactly as he does, but I am not more forward than he is to say with Horace, — “Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri.”
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A larger, better trained, and more mobile field army (comitatenses) was under the command of masters of infantry and cavalry (magistri peditum, equitum).
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In Rome, freedmen became ward leaders (magistri vici), while in the municipalities of Italy and the west, they served the imperial cult as honorary officials (seviri Augustales).
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