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The books in which these documents were entered were called commentarii, regesta, the latter word from regerere, to inscribe.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Among the latter he mentions _acta diurna_ (_Ann. _ iii. 3) and _commentarii_ or
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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II (Vienna, 1894); Cordara, De profectu Pii VI ad aulam Viennensem ejusque causis et exitu commentarii, ed. BoËro (Rome, 1855); Rinieri,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Among the editions may be mentioned: "Alberti Argentinensis Chronici fragmentum", an appendix to Cuspinian's work "De consulibus Romanorum commentarii"
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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But we have not as yet reached what is, after all, for our purposes the most instructive part of the work of the pontifices -- I mean the archives or memoranda (_libri_ or _commentarii_) which they kept, and from which, indirectly, much of what I have had to say about the _ius divinum_ has been drawn.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Latin by birth; for Cicero declares that the _commentarii_ of the college showed him as a man of the greatest ability, [574] whose reputation remained for ages as one who was ready with wise counsel in matters both public and private.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Perhaps the boldest is that of Cantorelli, that the annales were constructed not out of the tabula but out of the commentarii; but this is in conflict with the passage in the scholiast on Virgil.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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It is in this period that I am inclined to attribute to the college that zeal for compiling and perhaps inventing religious formulae of all kinds, which took shape in the _libri_ or _commentarii pontificum_, and embodied that strange manual of the methods of addressing deities, which we know as _Indigitamenta_.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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The editor may have added matter of his own, amplifying and adorning after the manner of writers of his day; or he may have worked in the contents of other pontifical books, _libri_ or _commentarii pontificales_.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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[1] Cicero went so far as to write some short commentarii on his consulship in Greek, and perhaps in Latin also; but they were not edited until after his death, and do not deserve the name of histories.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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