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- noun A genus of plants, of the natural order Umbelliferæ, now usually regarded as a section of Peucedanum.
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And along with this quality, the _mira elegantia_ of Quintilian, his oratory had some kind of severe magnificence which we can partly guess at from his extant writings -- _magnifica et generosa_, says Cicero; _facultas dicendi imperatoria_ is the phrase of a later and able critic.
Latin Literature 1902
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For example, in his Agricola (39), he means by "imperatoria laus" "the renown in arms of the Emperor," who was then Domitian.
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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He, too, like Tacitus, uses the noun in its adjectival form, but he does not apply it, as Tacitus does, to that which belongs to the Emperor, but to that which belongs to a general; for he means by "imperatoria laus" (II. 52), "the fame of a general," even of Germanicus.
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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Henry IV. emperor of Germany; and some of the words of his bull are these: Henricum imperatoria administratione, regiaque dejicio.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823
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* Henricum imperatoria administratione, regiaque dejicio.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823
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There is in sin vis imperatoria et damnatoria, a commanding and a condemning power.
The Lord's Prayer 1692
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AE. snntque nomuli ludaici sub Augnsto percussi, quales sopra in imperatoria ludaeae mo - neta dedimos»
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Idque eo fuit mirabilius, quod ab eo laus imperatoria non A 2 4
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Military merit, as it is admirably expressed by Tacitus, was, in the strictest sense of the word, imperatoria virtus.]
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Military merit, as it is admirably expressed by Tacitus, was, in the strictest sense of the word, imperatoria virtus.]
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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