Magister dixit

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( Latin ) magister dixit (“the teacher said”) is a term used when an argument is replaced by a reference to an incontestable authority.

Are related:

( lat. ) ipse dixit ("he himself said"): The leader, the teacher said that. A phrase that Cicero gives in his De natura deorum .

( Greek ) autos epha (Αὐτὸς ἔφα - "he himself said"): The leader, the teacher said that. An expression that the students and followers of Pythagoras used in cases when they wanted to produce irrefutable proof to confirm the truth of a thesis to be evaluated .