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legate (lĕg`ət) [Lat. legare=to send], one sent as a representative of a state or of some high authority. In Roman history a legate was sent by the senate to the provinces as an envoy of the emperor. Sometime during the 12th cent. the word came into use to designate a papal ambassador. There are various types of papal legate, including the legatus a latere, a cardinal commissioned for a special confidential assignment as a representative of the pope; the nuncio or internuncio, who represents the Holy See, both temporally and ecclesiastically, in countries that exchange ambassadors with the Vatican (see nuncio, apostolic nuncio, apostolic (nŭn`shēō), resident legate of the Holy See at the capital of a temporal government. ..... Click the link for more information. ); and the apostolic delegate, a papal representative in a country that does not exchange ambassadors with the Vatican. |
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| The Locrians were laid waste by a legate of Scipio, yet they were not avenged by him, nor was the insolence of the legate punished, owing entirely to his easy nature. And when the legate passed, you remember, Gisquette? but it was a legate a latere, who came with a smile on his lips to say from the pope, `His holiness requests you to dine with him. |
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