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What is a locus classicus?

What is a locus classicus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An authoritative passage from a standard work that is often quoted as an illustration.
  2. A classic case or example.
  3. (biology) The locality from which a taxon was first described.
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The Maysles' movie Salesman was to be a locus classicus in this field, freighted with implied irony and tragedy.
Here the locus classicus is Naomi Orestes and Erik Conwayy's Merchants of Doubt.
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.
Frey is what happens when you make individual suffering, publically borne, the locus classicus of all literary culture.
A single glance at the locus classicus, might have made this error impossible.
The locus classicus of this research are the papers by Alberch and Gale that demonstrated a causal link between patterns of digit reduction and the mode of digit development.

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