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Though the word “fastus” may not be always injurious, the word “pompous” is invariably so.
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This pomp, invisible on other days, was called fastus.
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Sed abscondita est a sapientibus, et prudentibus tantae rei majestas; nec potuit humani fastus ingenii secretis interesse coelestibus, et penetrare ad superessentialis naturae altitudinem; et licet intelligerent, quod vere esset creatrix et gubernatrix rerum Divinitas, distinguere tamen nullo modo potuerunt quae esset Deitatis Trinitas, vel quae unitas vel quae personarum proprietas.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Sed abscondita est a sapientibus, et prudentibus tantae rei majestas; nec potuit humani fastus ingenii secretis interesse coelestibus, et penetrare ad superessentialis naturae altitudinem; et licet intelligerent, quod vere esset creatrix et gubernatrix rerum Divinitas, distinguere tamen nullo modo potuerunt quae esset Deitatis Trinitas, vel quae unitas vel quae personarum proprietas.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Ovid generally uses _fastus_ of the arrogance of women to their suitors (_Am_ II xvii 9, _Met_ XIV 762, _Fast_ I 419); the word is not found elsewhere in the poetry of exile.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Gradiuum, nostri comites, arcete parumper, 195 ut soli uacet aula mihi. procul igneus horror thoracum, gladiosque tegat uagina minacis. stent bellatrices aquilae saeuique dracones; fas sit castra meis hodie succumbere signis. tibia pro lituis et pro clangore tubarum200 molle lyrae festumque canant. epulentur ad ipsas excubias; mediis spirent crateres in armis. laxet terribilis maiestas regia fastus et sociam plebem non indignata potestas confundat turbae proceres. soluantur habenis205 gaudia nec leges pudeat ridere seueras.
The Marriage of Honorius and Maria Claudian 1912
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Potestas quam sibi Papa et Episcopi, caeterique quos spiritales vacant, arrogant, et fastus, quo turgent, ex sacris literis et doctrina Christi firmamentum non habet.
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Potestas quam sibi Papa et Episcopi, caeterique quos spiritales vacant, arrogant, et fastus, quo turgent, ex sacris literis et doctrina Christi firmamentum non habet.
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To me it looks like a technical word of the _ius divinum_, meaning that which it is lawful to do under it; thus a _dies fastus_ is one on which it is lawful under that _ius_ to perform certain acts of civil government, "sine piaculo"
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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But he feels also nevertheless, characteristically, that such local pride (fastus he terms it) is proper [229] only for those whose occupations are wholly congruous with it; for the gifted, the freemen who can enter into the genius, who possess the liberty, of the place; that it has a reproach in it for the outsider, which comes home to him.
Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Walter Pater 1866
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