procuratis

Updated: May 22, 2025

The best authorities agree in giving the year 697 as that of the election of the first doge, Paul Luke Anafeste. He was elected in a general meeting of the commonalty, tribunes, and clergy, at Heraclea, "divinis rebus procuratis," as usual, in all serious work, in those times.

John Ruskin - The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3)