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These curiales (city fathers) ran a tightly ordered society where life, status and expectation were locked in eternal equipoise well beyond Victorian stuffiness.
Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future 2010
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Attamen qui illorum sunt curiales Imperatoris non vellent in palatio publicari.
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By then, they ruled the cities, with little power left to the former civic institutions (such as the ekklèsia, or the boulè) and even surpassed by far the wealth and influence of the normal curiales/bouleutai (members of the boulè), who carried most of the financial burdens on their shoulders and tried to escape by whatever means their fiscal duties.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Domestic Area Report 6 2003
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Attamen qui illorum sunt curiales Imperatoris non vellent in palatio publicari.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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COULON, Lettres secretes et curiales du pape Jean XXII, relatives a la France (Paris, 1900 -); MOLLAT, Lettres communes du pape Jean XXII
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Roman towns, by the same process, the urban landlords (curiales) became debased into the manufacturing population (collegiati).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Curial letters (litterœ curiales or de curia) denoted particularly letters of the popes in political affairs.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Although eminently respectable, his family was not rich, and his father, Patricius, one of the curiales of the city, was still a pagan.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The distinction between litteræ communes and curiales seems rather to have belonged to a later period, and to have rather concerned the manner of entry in the official "Regesta," the communes being copies into the general collection, the curiales into
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Emperor, of the law as to hereditary occupations and guilds, and the position of the curiales, so as to explain the law as to admission to the priesthood.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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