locus classicus in English
noun
1
a passage considered to be the best known or most authoritative on a particular subject.
While it may not be the locus classicus on the subject, our passage in many respects does seem to represent the final word on right worship.
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1. (31) Debs, then, is precisely the sort of "crafty agitator" against whom Rerum Novarum so perspicaciously Animadverted in 1891, fully three years before Debs continued the tradition of labor violence whose locus classicus we must continue to find in the Haymarket Riots of 1886