A Dictionary of Greek and Roman AntiquitiesWilliam Smith, Charles Anthon Harper & brothers, 1843 - 1116 pages |
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... army . It appears that after the full number of the legion had been completed , some supernumerary soldiers were enlisted , who might be always ready to supply any vacancies in the legion . These soldiers , who were called adscriptivi ...
... army . It appears that after the full number of the legion had been completed , some supernumerary soldiers were enlisted , who might be always ready to supply any vacancies in the legion . These soldiers , who were called adscriptivi ...
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... ARMY . ) ACILIA LEX . ( Vid . REPETUNDÆ . ) ACIL'IA CALPURNIA LEX . ( Vid . AMBI- TUS . ) ACI'NACES ( ȧkiváκnç ) , a poniard . This word , as well as the weapon which it de- notes , is Persian . Herodotus says , that when Xerxes was ...
... ARMY . ) ACILIA LEX . ( Vid . REPETUNDÆ . ) ACIL'IA CALPURNIA LEX . ( Vid . AMBI- TUS . ) ACI'NACES ( ȧkiváκnç ) , a poniard . This word , as well as the weapon which it de- notes , is Persian . Herodotus says , that when Xerxes was ...
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... army at the battle of Platea , the Greeks found golden poniards on the bodies of the slain . That of Mardonius , the Persian general , was long kept as a trophy in the temple of Athena Parthenos , on the acropolis of Athens . It The ...
... army at the battle of Platea , the Greeks found golden poniards on the bodies of the slain . That of Mardonius , the Persian general , was long kept as a trophy in the temple of Athena Parthenos , on the acropolis of Athens . It The ...
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... army , to see that the contractors sup- plied the soldiers with provisions according to agree- ment , & c . 7 " Actus ACTUS , a Roman measure of length . vocabatur , in quo boves agerentur cum arat ro , uno im- petu justo . Hic erat cxx ...
... army , to see that the contractors sup- plied the soldiers with provisions according to agree- ment , & c . 7 " Actus ACTUS , a Roman measure of length . vocabatur , in quo boves agerentur cum arat ro , uno im- petu justo . Hic erat cxx ...
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... army ; namely , the buccinatores , cornicines , and tubicines . Eneatores were also employed in the public games . A collegium æneatorum is mentioned in inscriptions . " 6 ÆÓLIP'YLE ( alóλov múλai ) were , according to the description ...
... army ; namely , the buccinatores , cornicines , and tubicines . Eneatores were also employed in the public games . A collegium æneatorum is mentioned in inscriptions . " 6 ÆÓLIP'YLE ( alóλov múλai ) were , according to the description ...
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Page 126 - The chief duties of augurs were to observe and report supernatural signs. They were also the repositories of the ceremonial law, and had to advise on the expiation of prodigies and other matters of religious observance. The sources of their art were threefold: first, the formulas and traditions of the college, which in ancient times met on the nones of every month ; secondly, the...
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Page 164 - Ep. 75) alludes to a person who married in order to comply with the law. That which was caducum came, in the first place, to those among the heredes who had children ; and if the heredes had no children, it came among those of the legatees who had children. The law gave the jus accrescendi, that is, the right to the caducum as far as the third degree of consanguinity, both ascending and descending (Ulp. Frag.