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'Nobilissimae puellae, filiae meae,' but also by Zosimus (ii. 39), who says that Constantine bestowed the dignity of Nobilissimus on his brother Constantius and his nephew Hannibalianus ([Greek: tês tou legomenou nôbelissimou par 'autou Kônstantinou tuchontes axias aidoi tês syngeneias]); and by Marcellinus Comes, s.a. 527, who says:
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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Nobilissimus, title given to nearest relatives of the Emperor, 85, 86.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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A single scale of _Holoptychius Nobilissimus_, -- fast locked up in its red sandstone rock, -- laid by, as it were, for ever, -- will be seen, if we but set ourselves to unravel its texture, to form such an instance of nice adaptation of means to an end as might of itself be sufficient to confound the atheist.
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Holoptychius of the Lower Old Red must have been at least thrice the size of the _Holoptychius Nobilissimus_ of Clashbennie.
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I found also a fine scale of _Holoptychius Nobilissimus_, and a small tooth, bent somewhat like a nail that had been drawn out of its place by two opposite wrenches, and from the internal structure of which Professor Owen has bestowed on the animal to which it belonged the generic name Dendrodus.
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I owe my specimen to Mr. John Stewart of Edinburgh, who laid it open in a micaceous red sandstone in the quarry of Prestonhaugh, near Dunse, where it is associated with some of the better known ichthyic organisms of the Upper Old Red Sandstone, such as _Pterichthys major_ and _Holoptychius Nobilissimus_.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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Jovian, his infant son had been placed in the curule chair, adorned with the title of Nobilissimus, and the vain ensigns of the consulship.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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The royal infant was distinguished at Constantinople by the title of Nobilissimus: he was promoted, before his departure from
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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In favor of the latter, Constantine invented the new and singular appellation of Nobilissimus; to which he annexed the flattering distinction of a robe of purple and gold.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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In favor of the latter, Constantine invented the new and singular appellation of Nobilissimus; [30] to which he annexed the flattering distinction of a robe of purple and gold.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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