Definition of "authoritie"

This Lyſander was of great authoritie and eſtimation amongeſt them in the citie: Mandroclidas was also very wiſe, and carefull, about any matter of counsell, and with his wiſedom and policy, very valiant: […]

1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, page 851