How To Use Hadrian In A Sentence
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But on an evening like this at Hadrian's Wall, in the soft rain and with the cuckoo and the peewit for company, the wild and empty landscape forces a revision of my historical imagination.
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Previous to the building of the Pantheon in its present domical form, during the reign of Hadrian about A.D. 123, the history of the dome is for the most part a blank.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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I flourish the knife at them as they streak away southwards over Hadrian's Wall, over the chapel of St. Michael and All Angels and out of sight.
Excerpt: Raven Summer by David Almond
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Part of the mastery of "Memoirs of Hadrian" is in its reminder that the emperor, like the rest of us, remains imprisoned in a perishable human body.
Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
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It cannot have been in the reign of Hadrian, as one authority states; nor in the time of Antoninus Pius, if the second Apology was written in the time of M. Antoninus; and there is evidence that this event took place under M. Antoninus and L. Verus, when Rusticus was praefect of the city.
M. Aurelius Antoninus, by George Long, M. A
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From Antioch to Hadrianople, he traversed the wide extent of his dominions with a numerous and stately train; and as he labored to conceal his apprehensions from the world, and perhaps from himself, he entertained the people of
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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She remembered the builder of Antinoe, a Roman covered with sores and full of sickness called Hadrian.
Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life
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The overcast and drizzly weather stretched all the way from Hadrian's Wall to the Shetland Islands, making Scots reach for their umbrellas and cardies rather than parasols and bikinis.
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Well, the Vatican should shut up; it's quick enough to condemn Jews for defensive action but I seem to recall was utterly silent during one of the worst genocides of the Twentieth Century (and is now actively trying to 'canonise' the one responsible for that so that he could achieve greater Vatican control of its German churches) hadrian
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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After leaving the Piazza, we get a glimpse of Hadrian's Mole, and of the rusty Tiber, as it hurries, "_retortis littore Etrusco violenter undis_" as of old, under the statued bridge of St. Angelo, -- and then we plunge into long, damp, narrow, dirty streets.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859
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Environmental groups are up in arms about plans to sink an oil well close to Hadrian's Wall.
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If you had a time machine and travelled back the period of Nero or Hadrian and spoke of Jerusalem as an Islamic capital there would be total confoundment by any Roman.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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But now, another Roman noble has stepped in to defend Hadrian's villa near Tivoli from the garbage trucks, which are expected in the new year.
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That would suggest that the last books can scarcely have been written before the early years of Hadrian's reign, perhaps c. 120.
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It is improbable that when completed by Hadrian any portion of the temple was hypaethral.
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The Emperor Hadrian built (A.D. 120) the rampart from the Solway to the German Ocean as a barrier against the Caledonians, giving up the more northern conquests; but Lollius Urbicus, the prætor, drove the enemy back, and built a lesser wall from the Forth to the Clyde, A.D.
A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates
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In the reign of Hadrian a forum/basilica complex was constructed, and slightly later a set of public baths in the insula to the east of the forum.
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Environmental groups are up in arms about plans to sink an oil well close to Hadrian's Wall.
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Hadrian was an outstanding architect himself, and here he gave vent to one of his interests.
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Specifically, there is evidence that the garrisons of the forts stationed north of Hadrian's Wall were withdrawn, and that thereafter a permanent Roman military presence north of the Wall did not figure in Roman strategic planning.
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The substructure is a square 114 yards in diameter and upon this building was probably a smaller, surmounted by a statue of Hadrian.
Fifty Years in the Gospel Ministry from 1864 to 1914. Twenty-seven Years in the Pastorate; Sixteen Years' Active Service as Chaplain in the U. S. Army; Seven Years Professor in Wilberforce University; Two Trips to Europe; A Trip in Mexico.
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Charlemagne encouraged the general adoption of the liturgical books used in Rome, as well as the so-called Dionisyo-Hadriana, the main Roman collection of conciliary canons and papal decrees.
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Hadrian was always so nosy and loomed over everything that Ayumi did, believing that it was all a part of his job as a regent prince.
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After a superb re-acquittance with Royce and Hadrian in the first several pages, “Avempartha” actually continues more as a series opener with a ton of build-up in the first half of the novel, while the second half is just superb non-stop action, especially when the two threads following Royce, Hadrian and Princess Arista respectively converge at the elven castle...
Archive 2009-03-01
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So Rome sent their finest general, a young man by the name of Hadrian, who responded with a level of brutality that earned him a reputation throughout the empire.
Gold of Kings
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A.D. 106) was the author of Stratagematicon Libri IV., a kind of anecdotic treatise on the Art.of War; AELIANUS (time of the Emperor Hadrian) and POLYAENUS the Macedonian (second century) were Greek writers on the Military Art. Though Milton does not name them in his tract, he doubtless had them in view among Military Books to be read.
The Life of John Milton
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A second road, turning north-west from Catterick Bridge, mounted the Pennine Chain by way of forts at Rokeby, Bowes and Brough-under-Stainmoor, descended into the Eden valley, reached Hadrian's wall near Carlisle (Luguvallium), and passed on to Birrens.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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At this point Pope Hadrian I defended the doctrine of procession through the Son against Charlemagne.
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The Roman name "Philistia" was a fiction invented by the Roman emperor Hadrian after the Bar Kochba Revolt in 135 C.E., a fiction of Hadrian then, and a fiction of the Arabs today, to the same degree.
Archive 2001-09-01
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Hadrian built his wall to keep out raiding parties from what is now Scotland; then, as now, the Scots were a lively, feisty people.
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The site was originally designed to hold Emperor Hadrian's remains following his death in AD 138.
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But we neutrals will be ushered away (figuratively, I hope), leaving the stage set for a thumping reaffirmation of the view that Hadrian's Wall means far more than a few stones on a hill.
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It is improbable that when completed by Hadrian any portion of the temple was hypaethral.
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Hadrian (whose bones may they be ground, and his name blotted out) once asked Rabbi Joshua ben
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
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A programme of repair and maintenance work was undertaken on parts of Hadrian's Wall.
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Although the inscription on the pediment declares, "M. Agrippa, son of Lucius, Consul during his third consulate, built this," it was actually Hadrian who built the Pantheon as a rotunda.
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The emperor Hadrian affranchised the city from aurum coronarium and recognized the right to take refuge in there.
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I invented the story of this Roman woman who went to a fort south of Hadrian's Wall to join her husband.
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The papacy did not respond well to this criticism of Hadrian, and Leo retaliated sharply in 798.
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Before Royce and Hadrian barely have time to settle after the fun had in The Crown Conspiracy, they find themselves pulled into a new problem: a young woman needs their help as her village is being attacked by an unknown nocturnal creature.
“Avempartha” by Michael J. Sullivan (Ridan Publishing, 2009) « The BookBanter Blog
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Hadrianic London, too, saw the demolition of the substantial Flavian forum and basilica and their replacement with a complex twice the normal size.
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It includes important early accounts of such major monuments as Stonehenge and Hadrian's Wall.
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You will struggle to get a plate of mince and tatties, stovies or even the relatively healthy cock-a-leekie soup south of Hadrian's Wall.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Wall painting marked out the various areas of the house and their functions; marble revetment largely replaced painted walls in the grand villas by the Hadrianic period.
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Without Pliny's letter, we would have misunderstood the meaning of Trajan's reply to it. Yet, Hadrian's rescript makes two essential points clear.
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With Hadrian we see the first steps toward a system of frontier garrison troops, permanently stationed, along with a field army that gets moved from one hot spot to another.
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Yet, there is a problem with the fact that the former was "organizer for life" of the games connected with it and probably still alive in A.D. 120-125, whereas the latter, who most likely had witnessed the accession of Hadrian in A.D. 117, was "the first organizer (agonothetès) for eternity (in perpetuum) of the agones Klareia.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Recording Report 3: Epigraphical Studies
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117 Whatever might be the success of his prayer, or the accidents of his future life, the period of a few years levelled in the grave the minister and the poet: but the name of Hadrian is almost sunk in oblivion, while
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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What keeps the reader thoroughly engaged is not drama but the high quality of Hadrian's thought and powers of observation.
Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
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The first two are images of Hadrian and a detail of the gorgoneion, the third is of Septimus Severus.
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Only a sense of uxorial duty to his position stopped Hadrian from sending Sabina into exile.34
Caesars’ Wives
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Unlike Alcibiades, who had brought destruction everywhere, he, Hadrian, had governed a world infinitely larger ... and had kept pace therein; I had rigged it like a fair ship made ready for a voyage which might last for centuries; I had striven my utmost to encourage in man the sense of the divine but without at the same time sacrificing to it what is essentially human.
Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
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When the prefect learned tbat Hadrian had been baptized, he had him broken limb from limb.
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I liked to feel that I was above all a continuator," Hadrian writes.
Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
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Priori ex ottatia simtlefln com capite Hadriani in numia snis Graecis ynlgaTit Vaillantius, sed eum Arabiae proTinciae juxta Palaestinam sitae largitus est, qnem adeo jnre perstrinxtt BellejuSf quia ht nuBit faj»rica, forma, et epi - graphet modo cnm reliqois nomomm nuniis conspirant.
Doctrina numorum veterum
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The term labarum, which is of uncertain derivation, was probably familiar in the Roman army from the reign of Hadrian.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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Precisely this is understood as well by Hadrian's heirs – the Arab propagandists who through their use of this false name sever the historic tie between the People and the Land of Israel.
Archive 2001-09-01
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Aurelius Victor (in Traj. 348, ed. Artzen) says that Hadrian first received this title on his adoption; but as the adoption of Hadrian is still doubtful, and besides this, as Trajan, on his death-bed, was not likely to have created a new title for his successor, it is more probable that Aelius Verus was the first who was called Caesar when adopted by Hadrian.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Hadrian, we are informed by his fourth-century biographer, built his wall to divide the Romans from the barbarians.
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Apart from the traditional magistracies, his only posts were those of imperial legate in Italy (an innovation of Hadrian), in his case in Etruria and Umbria, where he owned land, and proconsul of Asia.
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A famous bearer of the name was Publius Aelius Hadrianus, better known as Hadrian, a 2nd-century Roman emperor who built a wall across northern Britain.
Neth Space
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Hadrian's letter to young Marcus is being written at the end of his life, and so with a sure grasp of the inexorability of "Time, the Devourer.
Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
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When the prefect learned that Hadrian had been baptized, he had him broken limb from limb.
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Part of the northern frontier of the Roman Empire of Hadrian's Wall.
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Pictured: ancient Roman border security in England, aka Hadrian's Wall.
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc . . . And The Border
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Sir Hadrian now glowered at George as if the young man himself had been a willing and eager accomplice in the matter of the Tofts's failed cozenage.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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Temporarily Hadrian's Wall became redundant; gates were removed from the milecastles, and parts of the Vallum were deliberately slighted to form additional crossings.
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Hadrian survived his wife by barely a year, dying at Baiae on 10 July 138, at age sixty-two, possibly of coronary heart disease.52 In 139 his remains were dug up from their temporary resting place in the gardens of Domitia and reinterred in his just completed fifty-meter-high mausoleum overlooking the Tiber, alongside those of Sabina.
Caesars’ Wives