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  • Praestat ut altare maius exstruatur a pariete seiunctum, ut facile circumiri et in eo celebratio versus populum peragi possit.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • Praestat ut altare maius exstruatur a pariete seiunctum, ut facile circumiri et in eo celebratio versus populum peragi possit.

    Liturgy 2009

  • Jodocus Trutfetter, Summulae totius logicae, quod opus maius appelitare libuitur, Erfurt 1501.

    The Statue of a Writer 2009

  • It reminded the citizens of Tarsus that Marcus Antonius owned imperium maius, and could execute anyone for anything.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • As his imperium was maius, he outranked the consuls, whose ivory curule chairs were to either side of his, and farther back.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • As his imperium was maius, he outranked the consuls, whose ivory curule chairs were to either side of his, and farther back.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • It reminded the citizens of Tarsus that Marcus Antonius owned imperium maius, and could execute anyone for anything.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Imperium maius we may have, but in order to enforce that, we must have command of willing soldiers.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Imperium maius we may have, but in order to enforce that, we must have command of willing soldiers.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Since between you—I discount Lepidus—you have imperium maius over nine-tenths of the Roman world and you control its legions as well as its incomes, what else can happen when you collide other than full-scale war?

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

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