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Assertor

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as·sert  (-sûrt)
tr.v. as·sert·ed, as·sert·ing, as·serts
1. To state or express positively; affirm: asserted his innocence.
2. To defend or maintain (one's rights, for example).
Idiom:
assert oneself
To act boldly or forcefully, especially in defending one's rights or stating an opinion.

[Latin asserere, assert- : ad-, ad- + serere, to join; see ser-2 in Indo-European roots.]

as·serta·ble, as·serti·ble adj.
as·serter, as·sertor n.


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] These lines thus introduce the next major section of the letter, roughly 35 lines, which richly describe the dog as both the companion and protector of the poet in his rustic solitude and thereby as the very guarantor of his freedom: "Liber ago; meus assertor michi scilicet unus / est, comes assiduus" (31-32; "I live freely, / since he and he alone is my protector, / And my constant companion"; translation modified).
30) It is not just the terms auctor and auctoritas that are finding a vernacular meaning, but others such as compilator, collector, editor, scriptor, commentator, actor, assertor (Minnis, pp.
52) The scholium on Epicurus voluptatis assertor begins with a hint of "the rehabilitation of Epicurus" that Erasmus observed in process in his own day.
 
 
 
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