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  • Ciofano pro textu est '-- Auctor Electorum Etonensium_ | | 12 pertulit] non tulit _Auctor Elect.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Publicized as a non-sorcerous alternative to the Harry Potter series, the Landon Snow novels use Biblical passages as the vehicle through which the Auctor — God — provides Landon with hints about his next adventure, and it is hope and faith, rather than magic, that the characters rely on for their success.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Mirtika 2006

  • Publicized as a non-sorcerous alternative to the Harry Potter series, the Landon Snow novels use Biblical passages as the vehicle through which the Auctor — God — provides Landon with hints about his next adventure, and it is hope and faith, rather than magic, that the characters rely on for their success.

    CSFF Blog Tour: R.K. Mortenson and Landon Snow Mirtika 2006

  • Auctor fecit talem descriptionem tam laudabiliter quam prudenter, ut heic implicite tangeret originem famosae stirpis istius, et ut daret meritam famam et laudem huic mulieri dignissimae.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

  • The Auctor Electorum Etonensium objected that _detinui tempus_ was inappropriate: 'poeta tempus detinere noluit, quod scilicet per se morari atque haerere uidebatur inuisum'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • -- "Auctor ssepissime dicit de ipso Bonifacio magna mala, qui de rei veritate fuit magnanimus peccator": "Our author very often speaks exceedingly ill of Boniface, who was in very truth a grand sinner."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

  • Bona refers to tom.iii. p. 307. of an _Auctor Antiquitatum Liturgicarum_ for certain

    Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various

  • From other descriptions of the Amazons, the Auctor Electorum Etonensium aptly compares Val Fl IV 603 (_cateruas_) and 607 (_turma_); compare as well

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Chrysippus (for education; cf.i. 1, 16, etc.); Cicero; _Auctor ad

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • The analytical rules of rhetoric were growing ever more intricate and time-wasting, and how pedantic they were even before Vergil's childhood may be seen by a glance into the anonymous Auctor ad Herennium.

    Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

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