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Factus ibidem scriba eius, pro libito totam comitis curiam, ad nonnullorum inuidiam regebam; quosque volui humiliabam, et quos volui exaltabam.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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English it is usually glossed scriba, while it is now limited to very high judicial or political office.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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A _scriba pontificis_, who had seduced one of them, was beaten to death by the pontifex maximus.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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A secretary (_scriba_), who had land on the Janiculan hill, dug up there
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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[9] The names current among the ancient Romans, _librarius_, _scriba_, were of a far less complimentary nature, and referred merely to the mechanical side of the art.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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Very soberly and ruefully, Lydus paid over as the price of his big stories exactly the sum which he had received from the _scriba_, and departed from the _basilica_ of the boy prefect, if not a poorer, at least a sadder and
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874
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Prior of Bridlington, perhaps the "Robertus scriba" who copied certain theological treatises for the library, and who lived in the time of
Illuminated Manuscripts John William Bradley 1873
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Esdras sacerdos et scriba Bibliothecam sacram restituit.
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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Consul_, had indeed doubted the truth of this at the time, but as a just judge had gone that morning right early with the _scriba_ to Mellenthin, to question the young lord himself.
Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824
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So he took the executioner, with all the torture instruments, and a scriba along with him in the carriage, and set off for Uchtenhagen, where the old hag dwelt.
Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824
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