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... Roman civil life and was first used eccle- siastically by Tertullian to mean both clergy and laity . Gradually , it came to mean some office in the church to which a person had been specifically admitted by a bishop . In the early ...
... Roman civil life and was first used eccle- siastically by Tertullian to mean both clergy and laity . Gradually , it came to mean some office in the church to which a person had been specifically admitted by a bishop . In the early ...
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... Roman mythology , is woven into their dense , compact , resplendent texture . This cryptic , riddling sonority is the work of a poet who saw himself as a solemn bard ( vates ) , a Roman reincarnation of Pindar of Thebes ( 518-438 BC ) ...
... Roman mythology , is woven into their dense , compact , resplendent texture . This cryptic , riddling sonority is the work of a poet who saw himself as a solemn bard ( vates ) , a Roman reincarnation of Pindar of Thebes ( 518-438 BC ) ...
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... Roman emperor and empress on Feb. 2 , 962. But he rebelled when Otto issued his controver- sial Privilegium Ottonianum ( " Ottonian Privi- lege " ) , which ordered John to take an oath of obedience to the Emperor . On Nov. 6 , 963 ...
... Roman emperor and empress on Feb. 2 , 962. But he rebelled when Otto issued his controver- sial Privilegium Ottonianum ( " Ottonian Privi- lege " ) , which ordered John to take an oath of obedience to the Emperor . On Nov. 6 , 963 ...
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