Zosimus
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Though this view later buttressed papal powers, Augustine defied Pope Zosimus when the Pontiff tolerated Pelagius, whose theology was so optimistic that humanity scarcely seemed to need a Saviour.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is unlikely that any single copy of Zosimus has yet penetrated west of our Atlantic slope.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
Zosimus seems to have been a most excellent, loyal, and accomplished man.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
The oracle and the extract from Zosimus are printed in Dr. Wickham's introduction to the Carmen saeculare, and in Diels, Sibyllinische Blätter, p.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
The Platonists and some rabbis, Porphyrius, Plutarch, Zosimus, &c., hold this opinion, which is scornfully denied by some others, who assert that they only deceive the eyes of men, effecting no real change.
From The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Howard Williams
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