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  • adjective Of or relating to the Sabines

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Sabine +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • Suppose that, as scholars have long believed, Bluhme was right in detecting the existence of three separate masses of works to be read and excerpted by the Digest commissioners and of three separate committees the Sabinian, the Papinian and the edictal to read them.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

  • Suppose that, as scholars have long believed, Bluhme was right in detecting the existence of three separate masses of works to be read and excerpted by the Digest commissioners and of three separate committees the Sabinian, the Papinian and the edictal to read them.

    Two by Honoré on Justinian's Digest Dan Ernst 2008

  • As for the observation that Machiavel hath, that the jealousy of sects, doth much extinguish the memory of things; traducing Gregory the Great, that he did what in him lay, to extinguish all heathen antiquities; I do not find that those zeals do any great effects, nor last long; as it appeared in the succession of Sabinian, who did revive the former antiquities.

    The Essays 2007

  • So he rescued him from the hands of Sabinian and made him a grateful subject of his king Theodoric.

    The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964

  • Thence he came with two thousand infantry and five hundred horsemen to aid Mundo against Sabinian, Master of the Soldiery of Illyricum, who at that time had made ready to fight with Mundo near the city named Margoplanum, which lies between the Danube and Margus rivers, and destroyed the Army of Illyricum.

    The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964

  • Sabinian, or Quiritian jurisprudence; nor whether the _jus civile_ was derived from the _jus quiritium_, or the _jus quiritium_ from the _jus civile_, -- nor do I see why they should care.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various

  • So he rescued him from the hands of Sabinian and made him a grateful subject of his king Theodoric.

    The Origin and Deeds of the Goths Jordanes

  • Thence he came with two thousand infantry and five hundred horsemen to aid Mundo against Sabinian, Master of the

    The Origin and Deeds of the Goths Jordanes

  • Sabinian had been chosen in place of Athanasius deposed by an Antiochene synod in

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • The council decreed that further investigation should be made into the charges against Athanasius, Sabinian meanwhile holding the see.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

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