Zosimus
Americannoun
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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
But how dare I thus speak about Zosimus?
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore
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 Bostwick, Arthur Elmore
Zosimus, the Panopolitan, had described in former times the operation of distillation, by which water may be purified; the Arabs called the apparatus for conducting that experiment an alembic.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William
At the death of Pope Zosimus, the Roman clergy were divided into two factions, one of which elected the deacon Eulalius, and the other the priest Boniface.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
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