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Originally Posted by Hugh
It’s the original context, not a different one…
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Are you saying that's the first time the phrase was ever used or that it is the first recorded time?
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The term “vox populi” sounds like the sort of thing that would have been commonly evoked in the Roman Republic, but the earliest known reference to equating it with the voice of God (“Vox populi, vox Dei)—in a disapproving way—is attributed to Saxon scholar and teacher Alcuin of York (735–804), then Master of the Palace School at Aachen
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my bold.
https://www.historynet.com/what-is-t...opuli-vox-dei/