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" general or chieftain' ; Boethius was in fact ' consul,' but, as in the case of ' atheling' for ' prince,' it is thought best to keep to the word of Alfred. So also of ' Amuling ;' which signifies the descendant of Amul. Boethius... "
The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great: With Preliminary Essays ... - Page 173
by Alfred (King of England) - 1858
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Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volume 1

1851 - 696 pages
...AE'TIUS ('Amoc), of Amida in Mesopotamia, a Greek writer on medicine, who probably lived about the end of the fifth and the beginning of the sixth century of our aera, as we may infer from the persons whom he mentions in his work. He studied medicine at Alexandria,...
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The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great: With Preliminary Essays ..., Volume 1

Alfred (King of England) - 1852 - 590 pages
...' general or chieftain' ; Boethius was in fact ' consul,' but, as in the case of ' atheling' for ' prince,' it is thought best to keep to the word of...educated in Greece, where he spent the first years of his life, and married a Sicilian lady of Greek extraction, by name Elpis : these serve to explain the fact...
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The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great: With Preliminary Essays ..., Volume 1

Alfred (King of England) - 1852 - 596 pages
...a ' general or chieftain' ; Boethius was in fact ' consul,' but, as in the case of ' atheling* for 'prince,' it is thought best to keep to the word of...;' which signifies the descendant of Amul. Boethius (prsenamed Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus, and allied to those noble families) flourished as a...
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Volumes 1-2

1853 - 1034 pages
...AE'TIUS CAiTwf), of Amida in Mesopotamia, a Greek writer on medicine, who probably lived about the end of the fifth and the beginning of the sixth century of our era, as we may infer from the persons whom he mentions in his work. He studied medicine at Alexandria, then...
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Lives of eminent Russian prelates: i. Nikon, sixth patriarch of Moscow (by R ...

Robinson Thornton - 1854 - 172 pages
...the heathen gods, to which he refers, were probably those which he had inserted in his history, at the close of the fifth, and the beginning of the sixth century, of the fourth thousand years. The object which he had in view may be seen in the beginning of the work...
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Memorials of King Alfred: Being Essays on the History and Antiquities of ...

John Allen Giles - 1863 - 416 pages
...' general or chieftain' ; Boethius was in fact ' consul,' but, as in the case of ' atheling" for ' prince,' it is thought best to keep to the word of...toward the close of the fifth and the beginning of the 172 sixth century of our era. He was educated in Greece, where he spent the first years of his life,...
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Ridpath's Universal History: An Account of the Origin, Primitive ..., Volume 4

John Clark Ridpath - 1897 - 386 pages
...the fact that they have swallowed up the powerful Gothic streams which flowed into Italy and Spain at the close of the fifth and the beginning of the sixth century. It may be frankly admitted that it is on the basis of language as much as on the basis of blood that...
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The Ministry of Deaconesses

Cecilia Robinson - 1898 - 276 pages
...notice is of value ; for S. Remigius was one of the most influential prelates in the north of France at the close of the fifth and the beginning of the sixth century. It is therefore specially interesting to find that his daughter was a Deaconess. He would, doubtless,...
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Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, Volume 30

Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England) - 1908 - 424 pages
...been derived from the documents possessed by the descendants of the Babylonians in his day (the end of the fifth and the beginning of the sixth century of our era), Merodach was fourth in descent from Tauthe" or Tiawath — that is, if we take the names in the groups...
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The Catholic Historical Review, Volume 6

1921 - 632 pages
...quesivit, nee tamen inuenit." Similar tales are connected with St. Ailbe (Albaeus), of Emly, who lived at the close of the fifth and the beginning of the sixth century, and his "family."153 It is related of him that he had planned to sail to Ultima Thuli, but being dissuaded...
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