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Might I recommend a spin through the anti-modernist encyclical of St. Pius X, Pascendi dominici gregis; you should be able to find it on the web in a number of places.
Clarification 2009
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The papal encyclical Pascendi gregis condemned and censured the Modernist system.
1907, Sept. 8 2001
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Transeat quaeso dominus meus ante servum suum, et ego ducam me pedetentim ad pedem gregis, qui est ante me, et ad pedem puerorum, donec veniam ad dominum meum in Sehir.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Eheu, hominum furor: matris tu sola lux es, et gregis ultima spes, "-- or in English, that" Here lies Edward, Prince of Wales, brutally murdered while but a youth, in the year of our Lord 1471, on the 4th of May.
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Agricola -- a mere herdsman -- 'custos gregis', as the poet says.
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My poor mother entered a protest against the "_spes ultima gregis_," meaning myself, being left at home in times so perilous, and when all who could effect it were hurrying into garrisoned towns, and abandoning, for crowded lodgings, homes whose superior comforts were abated by their insecurity.
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 Various
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Fane, one of our brightest ornaments; quite the _spes gregis_ we consider him; passed his little-go, and started a pink only last week; give him a glass of punch.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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Bucula sum, caelo [ 'chisel'] genitoris facta Myronis aerea: nec factam me puto, sed genitam, sic me taurus init, sic proxima bucula mugit, sic uitulus sitiens ubera nostra petit. miraris quod fallo gregem? gregis ipse magister inter pascentes me numerare solet.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Nos igitur qui eiusdem Domini Nostri vices, licet immeriti, gerimus in terris, et oves gregis sui nobis commissas, quæ extra eius ovile sunt, ad ipsum ovile toto nixu exquirimus.
Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt
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The occurrence to-day of "King" as a surname takes us back to a time when the head of the family enjoyed the proud title, which the Romans conferred upon Cæsar Augustus, _Pater et Princeps_, the natural development from Ovid's _virque paterque gregis_.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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