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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of socius.

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Examples

  • The college residents at Paris were students in arts or theology; they were known as socii (fellows) and were governed by a master, or by several masters if the students belonged to different faculties.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • University orders that no one shall exact money or anything else from bajans except the "socii" with whom they live, and they may take only

    Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

  • University, students at Paris lived freely in private houses, which a number of "socii" hired for themselves.

    Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

  • "socii" are adjured to remember that they should not seek their own things but the things of Christ, and should therefore not spend on feasts anything over six _grossi_ paid by a bajan, but devote it to the honour of God and St Sebastian.

    Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

  • The Italian War also called the Social War, that is, war of the socii, Latin for allies took three years of bloody battles and sieges before Rome restored peace, and only at the price of granting citizenship to all the allies.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • The Italian War also called the Social War, that is, war of the socii, Latin for allies took three years of bloody battles and sieges before Rome restored peace, and only at the price of granting citizenship to all the allies.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • The Italian War also called the Social War, that is, war of the socii, Latin for allies took three years of bloody battles and sieges before Rome restored peace, and only at the price of granting citizenship to all the allies.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • The Italian War also called the Social War, that is, war of the socii, Latin for allies took three years of bloody battles and sieges before Rome restored peace, and only at the price of granting citizenship to all the allies.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • These are most impious, and commonly professed atheists, that never use the name of God but to swear by it; that express nought else but epicurism in their carriage, or hypocrisy; with Pentheus they neglect and contemn these rites and religious ceremonies of the gods; they will be gods themselves, or at least socii deorum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • If aught therefore be amiss (as I grant there is), I require a friendly admonition, no bitter invective, [151] Sint musis socii Charites, Furia omnis abesto, otherwise, as in ordinary controversies, funem contentionis nectamus, sed cui bono?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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