Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An ancient Roman festival celebrated annually on March 17th, in honor of Liber and Libera.
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The Christians retained the expression, mathemata eleuthera, studia liberalia, as well as the gradation of these studies, but now Christian truth was the crown of the system in the form of religious instruction for the people, and of theology for the learned.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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He represents him as from his youth up a genuine enthusiast for literature: Eloquentiam studiaque liberalia (i.e. grammatice and rhetoric) ab aetate prima et cupide et laboriosissime exercuit.
Introduction 1912
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Quæ autem naturalia et liberalia et communia omnium, auxit et dilatavit, sine invidia largiter donans hominibus per adoptionem, patrem scire deum ... auxit autem etiam timorem: filios enim plus timere oportet quam servos ".
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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