He expresses the special relationship between Rome and Carthage in the following terms: "Si autem Italiæ adiaces habes Romam, unde nobis quoqueauctoritas præsto est.
Footnote 129: Tertullian, in de corona 3, makes his Catholic opponent say: "Etiam in traditionis obtentu exigenda est auctoritas scripta.
Next, the responsa or auctoritas jurisprudentium, by which were intended the judicial decisions and the authority of the legal writings of the famous jurisconsults.
The vigour of the sentence in its original Latin carried it ringing down the centuries: "Major est Scripturae auctoritas quam omnis humani ingenii capacitas.
Nec in hoc pape potuit in aliquo prejudicari in facienda declaracione, maxime cum apud eum resideat plena potestas et auctoritas tocius ecclesie gubernande.
The word apocrypha was especially applied to those esoteric writings, for which such sectarians claimed an auctoritas secreta (Aug.
The practice seems to have been, in case of tribunician veto, to take the vote, which remained as an auctoritas senatus, but was not a senatus consultum unless the tribune was induced to withdraw.
The commission to Lentulus was eventually withdrawn by an auctoritas senatus, and Lentulus did not venture to do it.
It was thus on record as an auctoritas senatus, "resolution of the senate," not a senatus consultum.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "auctoritas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.