How To Use Ancients In A Sentence
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During her studies she worked with the British Museum examining the paints used on the sarcophagus of an Egyptian mummy to find out how the ancients had created a new colour.
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The team is largely staffed with ancients and has-beens.
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As to the pay of the Mercenaries it nearly filled two esparto-grass baskets; there were even visible in one of them some of the leathern discs which the Republic used to economise its specie; and as the Barbarians appeared greatly surprised, Hanno told them that, their accounts being very difficult, the Ancients had not had leisure to examine them.
Salammbo
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The ancients built stone circles to greet the first rays of the solstice.
Times, Sunday Times
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These Ancients, more ancient than ours but still not literally ancient, saw the world not as a giant clockwork but as an organism.
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One such bod was commenting that he thought that the ancients had erected Pentre Ifan because it was aesthetically pleasing and fitted in with the surrounding landscape.
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The ancients told those stories around the camp fires and those stories grew by the flame enkindled in the hearer's hearts; transforming them into story tellers too.
Happy Valentines Day, -XOX, The New Body of Christ:
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You know 1/6 of his writingsNewton wrote a tremendous amountwas caught up in alchemical knowledge in one way or the other and he believed that there were secrets to be uncovered, that the ancients had this great knowledge.
A Conversation with Rebecca Stott about The Coral Thief
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This was an early example of what the ancients called akrasia, or weakness of will, where we find ourselves doing what we know we shouldn't.
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Where we would say "testifies," the ancients in epistolary communications use the past tense.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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To capture the mystery, caprice and force of romantic love, the ancients conjured Cupid, a mischievous immortal in whose thrall we are wholly powerless.
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Hemp, or _Cannabis sativa_, from which we possibly derive the modern term canvas, was known to the ancients and used by them for rope and cordage and occasionally for cloth.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
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She passed over a large square opening and wondered if it could be a fish tank, what the ancients called a piscina.
SERPENT
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There followed a very fierce dispute between the Ancients and the Moderns.
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Pepper, though, was of infinitely more moment to the ancients than to be merely a topping, nostrum, or cachou.
Excerpt: Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
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Death is, as one of the ancients observes, [Greek: to ton phoberon phoberotaton], _of dreadful things the most dreadful_: an evil, beyond which nothing can be threatened by sublunary power, or feared from human enmity or vengeance.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II
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_ -- Chrysocolla, which appears to have been green carbonate of copper, or malachite (green verditer), was the green most approved of by the ancients; there was also an artificial kind which was made from clay impregnated with sulphate of copper (blue vitriol) rendered green by a yellow dye.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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By all accounts the ancients experienced themselves as living within an ensouled world - one thoroughly drenched in perceptions of goodness and value.
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Heterogeneous elements, taken from all the religions of the Orient, were combined in the uranography of the ancients, and in the power ascribed to the phantoms that it evoked, vibrates in the indistinct echo of ancient devotions that are often completely unknown to us. [
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
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In Greek this sound happens to mean "not intoxicated"; hence, without more ado, the ancients declared that the amethyst was a preventive of, and a cure for, drunkenness.
More Science From an Easy Chair
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The station attendant verbally told me that the ancients thought I was fou drunk.
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The ancients, who had a very faint and imperfect knowledge of the great peninsula of Africa, were sometimes tempted to believe, that the torrid zone must ever remain destitute of inhabitants; 126 and they sometimes amused their fancy by filling the vacant space with headless men, or rather monsters; 127 with horned and cloven-footed satyrs; 128 with fabulous centaurs; 129 and with human pygmies, who waged a bold and doubtful warfare against the cranes.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Sadly, you will be in the sort of snappy crocodile that the ancients did not worship.
Times, Sunday Times
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Second, authors discuss the importance of palaeopathology for not simply learning about the health and afflictions of the ancients but for understanding diseases today.
Books: Ancient Roadmap, Latin Revival, Mostly about Mummies
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Among the ancients, games with the "pila" were those played with the "pila trigonalis," so called, probably, from the players standing in a triangle, and those with the "follis," which was a larger ball, inflated with air and struck with the hands, or used for a football.
The Captiva and the Mostellaria
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For the ancients of Pisa have met for the last time; the signory of Florence plots no more; no more will any Emperor with the pride of a barbarian, the mien of a beggar or a thief, cross the Alps, or such an one as
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
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I have discovered that nothing is adduced by more recent theologians for the lawful use of _amphibologies_ which has not been made use of already by the ancients, whether philosophers or some Fathers, in defence of lies.
Apologia pro Vita Sua
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The diamond was not very well known among the ancients; and if we add to this reason the similarity between the words smiris, the Egyptian asmir, "emery", a species of corindon used to polish precious stones, and shmyr, the Hebrew word supposed to mean the diamond, we may conclude with probability that the limpid corindon was intended.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Moreover, carrying on with the classical literary order was a means of mitigating the downturn in Roman affairs since the days of the ancients.
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Sadly, you will be in the sort of snappy crocodile that the ancients did not worship.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was built conveniently close to the bath-house where the ancients could take to the soothing waters to wash away the stresses and strains of their long journey.
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Dr Johnson discovered in it the proceleusmatic song of the ancients; it certainly corresponds in real usage with the poet's description: --
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
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His educational proposals during the Revolution insisted on the distinction between education and instruction he saw as crucial in differentiating modern liberty from that of the ancients.
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But it is only these ancients who knew him that keep it green; by and by when they are gone Old Joe and his neddies will be remembered no more.
A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
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This term is derived from 'limen' and 'post,' which explains why we say that the person who has been captured by the enemy and has come back into our territories has returned by postliminium: for just as the threshold forms the boundary of a house, so the ancients represented the boundaries of the empire as
The Institutes of Justinian
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Polyhymnia, which is celebrated above the rest for an expression of melancholy pensiveness not usually found among the ancients.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
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Reading all government work report, oral request to sing Chinese Opera, the experimental kobo Ancients.
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He observed that the ancients allowed of little baggage, which they very properly called "impedimenta;" whereas the moderns burthen themselves with it to such a degree, that 50,000 of our present soldiers are allowed as much baggage as was formerly thought sufficient for all the armies of the Roman empire.
Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica
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Then he went on impetuously, telling me I was a real bluebird of happiness, a bringer of joy; that the ancients called the bluebird the emblem of happiness, but he knew the blue of my eyes was the real joy sign -- or something like that he said.
Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'
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The ancients thought of their _lives_ as woven on the loom of spiteful fates, whom they endeavored to humor by calling euphonious names.
Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
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Spenser, sought diligently to compose in the quantitative metres of the classics; Puttenham, the author of one of the first English treatises on the Art of Poetry (1589), declared that by "leisurable travail" one might "easily and commodiously lead all those feet of the ancients into our vulgar language"; but while they may have satisfied themselves
The Principles of English Versification
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By the ancients man was called a microcosm, from his representing the macrocosm, that is, the universe in its whole complex; but it is not known at the present day why man was so called by the ancients, for no more of the universe or macrocosm is manifest in him than that he derives nourishment and bodily life from its animal and vegetable kingdoms, and that he is kept in a living condition by its heat, sees by its light, and hears and breathes by its atmospheres.
Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom
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The ancients called these human shadows, shades; modern children and nursemaids call them ghosts and spooks; and each such shade is but an eidolon.
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Shakespeare's, -- all these spring from the Tale of Troy, not in the least as handed down by the ancients, but tricked and frounced as the
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
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Of the eight objects in our solar system that are indisputably planets, five are readily visible to the unaided eye and were known to the ancients, as well as to observant troglodytes.
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With the possible exception of Parmenides, none of the ancients or medievals who accepted eternity as a real, atemporal mode of existence meant thereby to deny the reality of time or to suggest that all temporal experiences are illusory.
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Rather than titillate or horrify, MTV's Skins elicits a certain acedia -- a lingering spiritual listlessness or torpor that the ancients counted among the Seven Deadly Sins.
Cathleen Falsani: MTV's Skins: Suffer The Little Children
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Is rhetoric, as the ancients posed, a form of incantation or magic?
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It is doubtful whether this is the oenothera of the ancients.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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The ancients say that, in the western Pyramid, are thirty chambers of parti-coloured syenite, full of precious gems and treasures galore and rare images and utensils and costly weapons which are anointed with egromantic unguents, so that they may not rust until the day of
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The fundamental distinction that pervades and informs all of his work is that between the ancients and the moderns.
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The ancients knew that pressure on the carotids could put someone to ‘sleep’ sometimes permanently.
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The ancients knew the art of spinning amianthus and weaving it into incombustible cloth in which the corpses of important people were burned.
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The world owes a very large part of its sufferings to tyrants; but what tyrant was there amongst the ancients, whom the poets did not place _amongst the gods_?
Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.
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The comets that streaked the skies and scared the ancients were powered by Fenna's breath.
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To illustrate this point, he looks first in his essay at how the modern understanding of causality differs from that of the ancients.
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The Council of the Ancients had, however, already decided that a provisional executive commission should be appointed, composed of three members, and was about to name the members of the commission -- a measure which should have originated with the Five Hundred -- when Lucien came to acquaint Bonaparte that his chamber 'introuvable' was assembled.
The Memoirs of Napoleon
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The weave is herringbone twill, a pattern known to the ancients, and the thread appears to be hand spun, an ancient technique.
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He was originally a stonemason, before he was encouraged by a classic Renaissance man -- his mentor, Giangiorgio Trissino -- to take up a broader study of music, science, literature and the writings of the ancients.
Andrea Palladio's influential architecture at National Building Museum
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Robinson's admiration of the ancients not only predisposes him to favor classical systems of education but also inclines him to turn to Cicero and Quintilian for rhetorical theories that will best help modem students.
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According to the ancients, seven planets circle the sun, hence the seven dwarfs.
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This was his idea in his famous letter on the modes of the ancients, who distinguished as many as seven, the Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Hypolydian etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Unlike Lactantius, Augustine did not treat the scientific scholarship of the ancients with ignorant contempt.
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The boy replied, “O brother, I know this from the sand170 wherewith I take compt of night and day and from the saying of the ancients, ‘No mystery from Allah is hidden; for the sons of Adam have in them a spiritual virtue which discovereth to them the darkest secrets.’”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The ancients believed that the sun and moon were planets.
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We owe a lot of that to the ancients.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite their indefatigability in itemizing the rhetorical moves, the ancients stopped short of so antihumanist a line.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
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Remember we are way ahead of the ancients, who thought that the rest of the universe revolved around the Earth.
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The other noble metal is silver, comparatively scarce in nature but easily beaten into shapes where its gleaming silver colour reminded the ancients of the Moon.
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We owe a lot of that to the ancients.
Times, Sunday Times
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the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions
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One of the moat brilliant of modern French writers [1] has recently remarked that, in spite of the number of years which have elapsed since the grave closed over the sorrows of Marie Antoinette, and of the almost unbroken series of exciting events which have marked the annals of France in the interval, the interest excited by her story is as fresh and engrossing as ever; that such as Hecuba and Andromache were to the ancients, objects never named to inattentive ears, never contemplated without lively sympathy, such still is their hapless queen to all honest and intelligent Frenchmen.
The Life of Marie Antoinette
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The ancients, who by many are thought best to have understood human nature, did not think tears unmanful, or disgraceful to a man of true fortitude; as might be amply shewn, if needful.
A Vindication of Three of Our Blessed Saviour���s Miracles: viz. The Raising of Jairus���s daughter, The Widow of Naim���s son, and Lazarus.
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There was a wide diversity of theories about the nature of light from the time of the ancients up to Newton.
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Night Pearl is a kind called "fluorspar" in the ore, phosphorus and other substances absorb light, the issue will be in the dark fluorescent or phosphorescent, the ancients that mysterious, known as "Night
All Kinds of Rocks, Fossils & Minerals
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Slightly apart stand a line of khaki-clad men, ancients with grizzled beards and yellow, rheumy eyes, dressed in tattered uniforms and battered solar topis.
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Secondly, the motion of the spectrum was not gradatim or by steps, or moving of the feet, but by a kind of gliding, as children upon ice, or as a boat down a river, which punctually answers the description the ancients give of the motion of these Lamures.
Dorothy Durant
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Unlike Lactantius, Augustine did not treat the scientific scholarship of the ancients with ignorant contempt.
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He knew his classics, and the mythologies from which the great books and plays of the ancients had been derived.
COLDHEART CANYON
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It is true that he hints at marshes near Cotrone, and, indeed, large tracts of south Italy are described as marshy by the ancients; they may well have harboured the anopheles mosquito from time immemorial, but it does not follow that they were malarious.
Old Calabria
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He knew he was only perfectly appreciated in those meetings, unfortunately too few, in which ALL his hearers were prepared to follow him into those spheres which the ancients imagined to be entered only through a gate of ivory, to be surrounded by pilasters of diamond, and surmounted by a dome arched with fawn-colored crystal, upon which played the various dyes of the prism; spheres, like the Mexican opal, whose kaleidoscopical foci are dimmed by olive-colored mists veiling and unveiling the inner glories; spheres, in which all is magical and supernatural, reminding us of the marvellous worlds of realized dreams.
Life of Chopin
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To even the earliest Western visitors, the odd, boxy letters evoked the ancients.
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Finer and more ornamental varieties of volcanic stone were introduced from a distance, such as the _peperino_ or grayish-green tufa of the Alban Hills, the _Lapis Albanus_ of the ancients, with its glittering particles of mica interspersed throughout its mass; the hard basaltine lava from a quarry near the tomb of Cæcilia Metella, on the Appian Way, and from the bed of the
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
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It became increasingly obvious that this was the secret of the ancients - they used this natural telluric energy, focusing it in certain places, for their own purposes.
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Ford's and Crashaw's rival Nightingales -- why they have been dissertated on by Wordsworth and Coleridge, then by Lamb and Hazlitt, then worked to death by Hunt, who printed them entire and quoted them to pieces again, in every periodical he was ever engaged upon; and yet after all, here 'Philip' -- 'must read' (out of a roll of dropping papers with yellow ink tracings, so old!) something at which 'John' claps his hands and says 'Really -- that these ancients should own so much wit & c.'!
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
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Though not a sequel to Cloning Clyde, developers of the title consider Ancients of Ooga to be the classic XBLA game's spiritual successor.
XBLArcade.com
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Our myrrh is the same drug that was used by the ancients under the above name.
A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.
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The ancients thought stars were pinholes in the night sky with Heaven's light showing through.
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He thus strangely forgets that what we call autumn is springtime in the southern hemisphere (_Astronomy of the Ancients_, p. 511).
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
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The ancients also used oracles to obtain sanction or approval, even though they had already decided on their course of action.
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But the ancients would hold their own if they could be given the benefits of present-day training and diet.
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Descartes tackles the problem of skepticism which had been revived from the ancients such as Sextus Empiricus by authors such as Al-Ghazali [1] and Michel de Montaigne.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
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As times passed, times changed and, though many relicts of the ancients disappeared, this memorial became prized for its beauty and antiquity.
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Lasers, phasers, disintegrators, particle disruptors - these were the predictions for future warfare held by the ancients.
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Learning], reads: "The ancients who wished to illuminate their enlightened virtue in the subcelestial realm first governed well their states.
Empresses and Consorts
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Others think that this proverb admonisheth the guests to forget everything that is spoken or done in company; and agreeably to this, the ancients used to consecrate forgetfulness with a ferula to Bacchus, thereby intimating that we should either not remember any irregularity committed in mirth and company, or apply a gentle and childish correction to the faults.
Symposiacs
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Sadly, you will be in the sort of snappy crocodile that the ancients did not worship.
Times, Sunday Times
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Incidentally, the ancients had another cause for being grateful to this mythical hero.
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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their ages; and if you happen to have an Elzevir classic in your pocket neither show it nor mention it.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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Fenelon's text, full of borrowings from the ancients, is beautiful in its elocution and its rhythm.
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Acute diseases are those which the ancients named pleurisy, pneumonia, phrenitis, lethargy, causus, and the other diseases allied to these, including the continual fevers.
On Regimen In Acute Diseases
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Following the rules of proportion and symmetry of the ancients was important to Brunelleschi but he wanted these mathematical principles of beauty to be those seen by all observers.
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During her studies she worked with the British Museum examining the paints used on the sarcophagus of an Egyptian mummy to find out how the ancients had created a new colour.
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Nor does there seem to me other difference when I consider their respective grounds, except that the ancients frankly called those modes of speech lies, and the more recent writers, not a few of them, call them amphibological, equivocal, and _material_.
Apologia pro Vita Sua
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Some ancients still get a sparkle in their eyes when they remember surfing both swells.
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Nor will the inscription upon the altar serve to establish Pliny's opinion; because Agrippina was delivered of two daughters in that country, and any child-birth, without regard to sex, is called puerperium, as the ancients were used to call girls puerae, and boys puelli.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula
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Now it will be very hard to find a new cause, unless we fancy some strange air, water, or food never tasted by the ancients, should out of other worlds or intermundane spaces descend to us.
Symposiacs
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Is it that at first the ancients called that [Greek omitted], or speech, which once was called protasis and now is called axiom or proposition, — which as soon as a man speaks, he speaks either true or false?
Essays and Miscellanies
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Indeed, translators were quick to admit that their renderings were but starting points for readers who wished to become familiar with the ancients.
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Our shirt, chemise, chemisette, etc., was unknown to the Ancients of Europe.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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His Dorian is what the ancients called Phrygian, [G: d 'd' '] dominant,
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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Most part of their provisions are brought from Cairo in Egypt, by the Red Sea, or _Mare Erythreum_ of the ancients, and is landed at the port of _Gida_, Joddah or Jiddah, which is about forty miles from Mecca.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
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The famous pickle of the ancients, called garum, was made of the gills and blood of the tunny, or thynnus.
Travels through France and Italy
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The antediluvian myth is one where it is suggested that the ancients lived exceptionally long lives.
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Toward the end, as more foreign morale data began to come back-Yank pollsters with clipboards and squeaky new shoe-pacs or galoshes visiting snow-softened liberated ruins to root out the truffles of truth created, as ancients surmised, during storm, in the instant of lightning blast-a contact in American PWD was able to bootleg copies and make them available to "The White Visitation.
Gravity's Rainbow
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And shall only take notice of such whose experimental and judicious knowledge shall be employed, not to traduce or extenuate, but to explain and dilucidate, to add and ampliate, according to the laudable custom of the ancients in their sober promotions of learning.
Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation
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He opposed constraints imposed by such a priori rules as those set forth by Boileau or the tyranny of the ancients and defended the right of genius to create beauty by the idealization of nature.
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Slightly apart stand a line of khaki-clad men, ancients with grizzled beards and yellow, rheumy eyes, dressed in tattered uniforms and battered solar topis.
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The ancients were much more severe and less simoniacal than we are notwithstanding that they imputed so many foolish actions to their gods.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Beyond both rose the green eternastone tower, and the aqueduct of the ancients that ran westward to the Upper Spine Mountains, paralleling the main eternastone high road, although the road had been built by alector engineers to follow the aqueduct.
Soarer's Choice
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The wind swept up the dirt in what the ancients called the "stade," referring to the distance of nearly 200 meters that the ancient athletes ran in that first Olympics in 776 B.C.
USATODAY.com - Return to Olympia worth long wait
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Features described by the ancients - mountain passes, hill flanks, and the great plain - stood suddenly revealed before us, all in their proper places, as the Mesopotamian geography yielded its secrets like a dusty cuneiform.
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The ancients praises as snow mushroom aqua"spring in the sky", not a few scholar refined scholars like to use snow mushroom water pocket tea.
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The procession being thus formed in front of the chief's cabin, and the whole population of the village, many hundred in number, men, women and children, gathered around to witness the spectacle, M. Joutel and his attendants, led by the chief, were brought out to be received by the ancients and conducted to the council house.
The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago
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The English once had a continuity myth involving the ancients in the story of the eponymous Trojan, Brutus, but this fantasy had largely evanesced by the time Pope briefly toyed with the idea of reviving it.
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Among the ancients, she begins, the oppositions to rational truth were error, ignorance and, most of all, opinion.
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Though not a sequel to Cloning Clyde, developers of the title consider Ancients of Ooga to be the classic XLA game's spiritual successor.
Gaming Age Online | Videogame News and Reviews
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But the ancients would hold their own if they could be given the benefits of present-day training and diet.
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the secret learning of the ancients
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fluorspar" in the ore, phosphorus and other substances absorb light, the issue will be in the dark fluorescent or phosphorescent, the ancients that mysterious, known as "Night Pearl.
All Kinds of Rocks, Fossils & Minerals
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The name iris, meaning a deified rainbow, which was given this group of plants by the ancients, shows a fine appreciation of their superb coloring, their ethereal texture, and the evanescent beauty of the blossom.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
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The common bond is in the fact that ancients and moderns have both been miserable about existence, about everything, while mediaevals were happy about that at least.
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Such of the Ancients as held commands had come in purple cassocks, the magnificent fringes of which tangled in the white straps of their cothurni.
Salammbo
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The ancients conceived the earth as afloat in water.
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For architecture, among all the arts, is the one that most boldly tries to reproduce in its rhythm the order of the universe, which the ancients called "kosmos," that is to say ornate, since it is like a great animal on whom there shine the perfection and the proportion of all its members.
The Name of the Rose
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Although the novelties of the moderns were never disagreeable to our desires, who have always cherished with grateful affection those who devote themselves to study and who add anything either ingenious or useful to the opinions of our forefathers, yet we have always desired with more undoubting avidity to investigate the well-tested labours of the ancients.
The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
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It was Claudius, and this was the very reason he was surnamed Caudex, because among the ancients a structure formed by joining together several boards was called a caudex, whence also the Tables of the Law are called codices, and, in the ancient fashion, boats that carry provisions up the Tiber are even to-day called codicariae.
Doggdot.us
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The ancients, according to Pliny, were accustomed to hang branches of the wild fig upon the domestic tree, in order that the insects which frequented the former might hasten the ripening of the cultivated fig by their punctures -- or, as others suppose, might fructify it by transporting to it the pollen of the wild fruit -- and this process, called caprification, is not yet entirely obsolete [95].
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)
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This term is derived from 'limen' and 'post,' which explains why we say that the person who has been captured by the enemy and has come back into our territories has returned by postliminium: for just as the threshold forms the boundary of a house, so the ancients represented the boundaries of the empire as
The Institutes of Justinian
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The ancients strongly expressed their sense of the unmanageableness of these words of the spirit by saying, that the God made his priest insane, took him hither and thither as leaves are whirled by the tempest.
Uncollected Prose
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Every bean has its black. , the ancients have in a lifetime to do evil, to face death before germination can convict, a good idea, so get a reward.
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Indeed, it was precisely this contingency - the haphazardness of facts - that made them a boring subject for the ancients.
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The observational abilities of the ancients were to have practical application beyond those of time-reckoning and attempt to predict future events.
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Eyes half closed, head tipped back in a light trance, he could cite baseball statistics as the ancients unreeled The Iliad.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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Our remarks have hitherto applied to the monastic scribes alone; but it is necessary here to speak of the secular copyists, who were an important class during the middle ages, and supplied the functions of the bibliopole of the ancients.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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In literature, on the other hand, we do read the ancients as well as the moderns, because old works of literature don't become obsolete when new ones are published.
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Some of the ancients have observed that the head of a locust is very like, in shape, to the head of a horse.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Such memory athletes, using the "memory palace" method known to the ancients and first described by Simonides of Ceos around 500 B.C, convert concepts into distinctive images—the more lurid, the better—which they mentally place into actual locations they know well.
In the Memory Palace
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His confessedly eclectic work was a temperate defence of the moderns in the debate between the ancients and the moderns.
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In this scheme of things, the elements of air and fire predominated and together they composed a fifth element, more pure than the rest, which the ancients called ‘the aether.’
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Once in Venice I heard a scholar learned in the Greek tell of an old voyage of a ship called Argo, whence its captain and crew were named Argonauts, and he said that it was of all voyages most famous with the ancients.
1492,
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There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisting in this, that Achilles could never catch up with a tortoise he was following, in spite of the fact that he traveled ten times as fast as the tortoise.
War and Peace
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[364-20] A poet or musician is said to sing, and the lyre is the instrument with which the ancients accompanied their songs.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
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Giant carp control the lake, wallowing, complacent, feed on glutinous rice, silvery ancients reminding how scales and fish-slime outlast dynasties.
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The earlier denarius, worth about eightpence, clearly will not do; and the matter is made more difficult by the fact that Cassiodorus is talking about the ancients (veteres), whereas the solidus was a comparatively modern coin.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
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It's rare that I see any ancients logged on, anymore, and I'll continue to keep a watchful eye to see if there are any on, for this will be my last post on the forums.
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Challenges of the G-force acts once imagined as the ancients as far only one true god monkey was born.
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The ancients, then, had a very simple means of avoiding slavery and its evil consequences, which was that of affranchisement; and they succeeded as soon as they adopted this measure generally.
Democracy in America, volume 1
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The ancients built stone circles to greet the first rays of the solstice.
Times, Sunday Times
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TV documentaries and publishers have deployed, for 15 minutes, platoons of academic classicists to reveal to us the shocking truth: the ancients were not interested in taking part; they only wanted the glory of winning.
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If the sacred remnants of the ancients fall into this cursed fate, all but one will parish.
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Unlike Lactantius, Augustine did not treat the scientific scholarship of the ancients with ignorant contempt.
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Throughout the ages, snow scene has been added more profound by intoning and drawing. The ancients always intone, watch and draw snow, as a meaning of understanding life and exploration nothingness.
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In contrast to the ancients, the moderns were the foolish lovers of truth and liberty; they believed in the natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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In another oration of Demosthenes we discover glimpses of what by many has been deemed maritime insurance, or rather of the fraud at present called barratry, which is practised to defraud the insurer: but, as Park in his learned Treatise on Marine Insurance has satisfactorily proved, the ancients were certainly ignorant of maritime insurance; though there can be no doubt frauds similar to those practised at present were practised.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson
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In the refined civilization that was the Renaissance, the humanists believed they were the ancients reincarnate.
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According to the ancients, seven planets circle the sun, hence the seven dwarfs.
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The Scythians and the Hyperboreans (sometimes the Aethiopians) were the noble savages of the Ancients.
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The ancients, according to Pliny, were accustomed to hang branches of the wild fig upon the domestic tree, in order that the insects which frequented the former might hasten the ripening of the cultivated fig by their punctures -- or, as others suppose, might fructify it by transporting to it the pollen of the wild fruit -- and this process, called caprification, is not yet entirely obsolete.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action
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And so no doubt he would have of strigil and sistrum, if, instead of currycomb and cymbal, (which are the English names dictionaries render them by,) he could see stamped in the margin small pictures of these instruments, as they were in use amongst the ancients.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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The best fuel of the ancients was wood.
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Two of the characteristic features of this general teaching of the ancients can be said to be the teaching that the lover of wisdom is a composite of both wisdom/knowledge and folly/ignorance, and that the lover of wisdom unceasingly engages in enquiry zetesis; skepsis...
Archive 2009-06-01
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Another pair of scales had two cups, with a weight on the side opposite to the material weighed, to mark more accurately the fractional weight; this weight was called by the ancients ligula, and examen.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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The story is set several millennia in the future, after ‘the Ancients destroyed themselves in that terrible flurry of orbit-to-earth atomics and tailored-virus bombs called The Sixty Minute War.’
Catastrophe and Coincidence « Tales from the Reading Room
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So far as the majority of their acts are considered, crowds display a singularly inferior mentality; yet there are other acts in which they appear to be guided by those mysterious forces which the ancients denominated destiny, nature, or providence, which we call the voices of the dead, and whose power it is impossible to overlook, although we ignore their essence.
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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At the same time, the differ - ence between living and nonliving things was less marked, because the ancients tended to assume that all matter possesses power and mobility and is quasi - alive (the assumption that the material world is alive is known as “hylozoism”).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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A few pages of old authors would induce us to think the ancients had observed in certain arundines a sweet and extractible portion.
The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
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There were two great lyric poets living on Lesbos in the late 7th century B.C., and some ancients Horace, for one seem to have thought that Alcaeus was the greater of the two.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lesbos:
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Unfortunately a large number of "ancients" have been recast, owing chiefly to the craze for change-ringing which flourished in England between 1750 and 1830.
English Villages
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We have remarked, that it is no mystery why the decision should have gone pretty uniformly in favour of the ancients; for here is the dilemma: -- A man, attempting this problem, _is_ or _is not_ a classical scholar.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
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Ifa beliefs contain the sum total of the knowledge and wisdom of the ancients, existence, and the divine wisdom of the Orishas, the gods.
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There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisting in this, that
War and Peace
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Sacra_, p. 59) observes that there was known among the ancients a mental disorder called lycanthropy, the victims of which fancied themselves wolves, and went about howling and attacking and tearing sheep and young children (_Aetius, Lib.
The Man-Wolf and Other Tales
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And when the sun sets, the moon shimmers as you board one of the many gondolas and ride along the canals of the ancients.
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The disappearance of Praesepe in consequence of the condensation of vapour in the atmosphere was regarded by the ancients as
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
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But he conjectured probably, that where people lived so remote from each other, it was likely to be a domestick art; as we see it was among the ancients, from Penelope.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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Upon the first day of his eighteenth year the ancients called him to the stone monolith.
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It is most probable that the stone described by Marco Polo was not a ruby, but an amethyst, which is found in large crystals in Ceylon, and which modern mineralogists believe to be the "hyacinth" of the ancients.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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The ancients, and particularly the Greeks and the Romans, were more comfortable with explicitly erotic images than most moderns are.
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The substance called costus was highly prized by the ancients, and specimens may be met with at a few of the London drug-houses.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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But the ancients indeed call Bacchus the good counsellor, as if he had no need of Mercury; and for his sake they named the night [Greek omitted] as it were, GOOD ADVISER.
Symposiacs
