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This view accords with Renaissance theories of authorship as amplification and with the etymology of the word author itself, from augere, augment, increase.
Archive 2008-05-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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Quo rex Poloni� viso duos legatos ad C鎠aream celsitudinem mittens, qu騞 facinorosos exquirere, et poena perfecta punire, et ab annis multis ad portam C鎠are� celsitudinis missum munus augere vellet, significauit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Roman “authority” (auctoritas) is “augment” (augere), and Cicero did occasionally identify auctoritas with
AUTHORITY LEONARD KRIEGER 1968
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Dein se ex curia domum proripuit; ibi multa ipse secum volvens, quod neque insidiae consuli procedebant et ab incendio intellegebat urbem vigiliis munitam, optimum factu credens exercitum augere ac prius quam legiones scriberentur, antecapere quae bello usui forent, nocte intempesta cum paucis in Manliana castra profectus est.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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At Jugurtha, cognita vanitate atque imperitia legati, subdolus ejus augere amentiam, missitare [225] supplicantes legatos, ipse quasi vitabundus per saltuosa loca et tramites exercitum ductare.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Ceterum qua pergebat urbes, agros vastare, praedas agere, suis animum, hostibus terrorem augere.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Placet igitur eos dimitti et augere exercitum Catilinae?
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Vetera novis augere et perficere -- "To strengthen and complete the old by aid of the new" -- is the motto of the restoration proposed by Leo XIII.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Hoc modo irritatis animis bonorum virorum initio praebuerunt occasionem huic dissidio, et eadem arte conantur nunc augere discordias.
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Hoc modo irritatis animis bonorum virorum initio praebuerunt occasionem huic dissidio, et eadem arte conantur nunc augere discordias.
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