praestantior

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Palmae instar totius orbis arboribus longe praestantior.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007
= Similar language of a similar exploit at _Met_ XI 525-28 'ut miles, numero praestantior omni,/cum saepe adsiluit defensae moenibus urbis,/spe potitur tandem _laudisque accensus amore_/inter mille uiros murum tamen occupat unus'.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
Richard Simon, who gave so vigorous an impulse to Biblical studies in France, and who, if Bossuet had not forestalled him, would possibly have originated a scientific method of exegesis, profited by the commentaries of the man he called major et praestantior theologus.

Rashi Liber, Maurice 1906
Spiritus opus est regeneratio ista praestantior, et novi hujus hominis qui creatur ad imaginem Dei author est Spiritus, quem utique meliorem hoe exteriori esse nostro homine nemo dubitaverit. "

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
(Hint. du Bas Empire, tom.xiv. p. 436, 438.)] [Footnote 35: In aureo triclinio quae praestantior est pars potentissimus (the usurper Romanus) degens caeteras partes (filiis) distribuerat, (Liutprand.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765