How To Use Tiber In A Sentence
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My sense of Tiberius is that he was a bad emperor for the Roman elites in the capital, to whom he was a capricious, paranoid tyrant.
Matthew Yglesias » What Would The Roman Empire Do?
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Read the poem in connection with this selection.] [Footnote 5: The Janiculum is a high hill across the Tiber from
Latin for Beginners
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Livia is desperately ambitious that her son, Tiberius, become Emperor on Augustus’s death, never mind that there are quite a few other heirs before him, or that neither Augustus nor Tiberius himself is very keen on Tiberius being Emperor.
Dissecting the Devil «
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Cassia Boccanera the _amorosa_ and avengeress who had flung herself into the Tiber with her brother Ercole and the corpse of her lover Flavio.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
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Livia settled all things for the succession of her son Tiberius, by continual giving out, that her husband Augustus was upon recovery and amendment, and it is an usual thing with the pashas, to conceal the death of the Great Turk from the janizaries and men of war, to save the sacking of
The Essays
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Tiberius distinguished his reign by great indolence, excessive cruelty, unprincipled avarice, and abandoned licentiousness.
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There I spent some comfortable days, sleeping much, having myself read to, mostly from the private letters of the Emperors, and from the Anticatones of the Divine Julius; and, from the balcony of the ante-room enjoying the splendid view southwestwards, over the Circus Maximus, the lower reaches of the Tiber and the Campagna, for my apartment was on that side of the Palace and high up.
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
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Theophylaktos gives a false date for the adoption of Tiberius, naming December in the ninth indiction - that is, 575.
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The unit had been stealthily airdropped at the Mediterranean beach, and had spent four hours making their way inland along the Tiber River to the city.
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Heliogabalus, or Elagabalus as he is also called, is indeed a prime example in the category of Roman decadence, along with other notorious emperors such as Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
Go ask the physiognomists, phrenologists, pathognomists and characterologists « Jahsonic
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Romans of every political stripe were profoundly upset by the events of Tiberius’ tribunate.
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As Tiberius was immediately adopted by Augustus, Germanicus became a member of the Julian gens in the direct line of succession; and his career was accelerated by special dispensations.
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He notes that he looked "to those twelve Caesars so mistreated by Suetonius," in the hope of emulating the best of each: "the clear-sightedness of Tiberius, without his harshness; the learning of Claudius without his weakness; Nero's taste for the arts, but stripped of all foolish vanity; the kindness of Titus, stopping short of his sentimentality; Vespasian's thrift, but not his absurd miserliness.
Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
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You’re at an ideal height here, low enough to get good feed from the Agger reservoirs, but too high to be troubled by backwashes when the Tiber floods, and the size of the adjutage into the mains is larger than the water companies are supplying now — if the new blocks can even get connected to the mains, that is!
The First Man in Rome
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Tiberius next filled up the vacant tribuneship by getting one of his own dependents put into the office.
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It is proposed to embank the famous old Tiber; and already the squalid quarter of the Ghetto has been invaded by the workmen, who are levelling the wretched dwellings that have for so many ages rendered its name a byword throughout the world, preparatory to the erection of new buildings.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
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He was born at Vulsinii, son to Sejus Strabo, a Roman knight; in his early youth, he was a follower of Caius Caesar (grandson of Augustus) and lay then under the contumely of having for hire exposed himself to the constupration of Apicius; a debauchee wealthy and profuse: next by various artifices he so enchanted Tiberius, that he who to all others was dark and unsearchable, became to Sejanus alone destitute of all restraint and caution: nor did he so much accomplish this by any superior efforts of policy (for at his own stratagems he was vanquished by others) as by the rage of the Gods against the Roman State, to which he proved alike destructive when he flourished and when he fell.
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
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Warrenpoint now proceed to the first round proper where they will meet Irvinestown from Fermanagh back in Clontiberet in a fortnight's time.
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They made use of it, to instil into the small portion of the people under their direction, that it was incumbent on them to serve no other master than him who was the vicegerent of God on earth, and who dwelt in Italy on the banks of a small river called the Tiber; that every other religious opinion, every other worship, was an abomination in the sight of
A Philosophical Dictionary
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It is, however, likely that this lake, which is fifty or sixty miles long, is not all asphaltic, and that while receiving the waters of the Jordan it also receives the fishes of that river; but perhaps the Jordan, too, is without fish, and they are to be found only in the upper lake of Tiberias.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Instead of shaking a "mailed fist" at the world, young William of Hohenzollern might have been a mediatized princelet on the lookout for an American heiress; there might never have been a Leipzig or a Waterloo, as there certainly would not have been a Sedan, and the heirs of Napoleon might now have been ruling over an empire covering all Central Europe, from the Tiber to the Baltic.
Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
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The following dupondius of Tiberius from the official mint of Rome has a more direct connection with Livia and bears a portrait that clearly resembles statues of the empress.
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The name Tiberius, I hope, will keep, howe'er he hath foregone The dignity and power.
Literary Remains, Volume 2
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As a result of water diversion from the upper Jordan by the Israel, there is no fresh water to flow downstream of Tiberias.
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When the term of his tribuneship expired, Tiberius presented himself for re-election.
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The soldiers burst out in the exclamation, so often attributed to them since, "Ecce Tiberim!"
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Copy down everything relating to the tribuneship of Tiberius Gracchus and his agrarian bill.
Imperium
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He advanced towards the gate called Janiculum upon the Tiber, and drove the
Young Folks' History of Rome
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This [last] country begins at Mount Libanus, and the fountains of Jordan, and reaches breadthways to the lake of Tiberias; and in length is extended from a village called Arpha, as far as Julias.
The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem
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In some of the vicissitudes of the city's pride, or its calamity, the dark tide of human evil had swelled over it, far higher than the Tiber ever rose against the acclivities of the seven hills.
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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
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The seeds of Julius's courage and compelling energy, of Augustus's prudence, of the libidinousness and cruelty of Tiberius, of Caligula's folly, of Nero's artistic genius and enormous vanity, are all within me.
Crome Yellow
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57 12 N. Jordan, a river of Palcftinc, which riles in Mount Libanus, and runs from N.to s, forming two lakes, the one for - merly called the fea of Galilee, or the Jake of Tiberias, and the other, the DeaA Sra.
The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the
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At the triumphal procession through the streets of Rome that followed in 44, Messalina was permitted to follow her husband’s chariot in a mule-drawn carpentum, ahead of the victorious generals from the campaign, and the couple’s son, hitherto known by the name Tiberius Claudius Caesar Germanicus, received the new sobriquet Britannicus in recognition of his father’s great victory.
Caesars’ Wives
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Tiberius, the emperor at the time of Christ's crucifixion, is represented here by a round-topped sandstone stela that shows him in classic pharaonic dress with a winged sun-disk kneeling before a couple of gods and with his name translated into hieroglyphs, recording the reconstruction of some flood-damaged temples at Karnak.
British Museum handsomely fulfils its duties to England outside London
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Quibbles about performance and lighting aside, “Roma Sub Rosa’s” peek into the final moments of Tiberius is not an entirely unworthy way to spend twenty-eight minutes.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
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On the Tiber side, however, Piranesi has had to adjust the placement of the upper side of the lug to make it fit as tightly against the Tiber bank as the main corner of the compound.
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Now that I have found the same word, on a situla giving it context in and around Trento, right along the line where the Rhaeti split into Latin and German speaking peoples after their subjugation in 15 BCE by Cæser Tiberius, I think I have a plausible theory for the origin of this famous inscription.
Never judge a book by its nom de plume
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In that fatal list of monarchs one is reduced to apologizing for a Tiberius, who only attained thorough detestableness toward the close of his life; and for a Claudius, who was only eccentric, blundering, and badly advised.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.
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Piso had been accused of complicity in the death of Germanicus, the heir apparent of Tiberius [emperor 14-37 A.D.], in one of the causes célèbres of the early principate.
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Jul. nece, c. 7, p. 152.)] [Footnote 140: Cujus suprema et cineres, si qui tunc juste consuleret, non Cydnus videre deberet, quamvis gratissimus amnis et liquidus: sed ad perpetuandam gloriam recte factorum praeterlambere Tiberis, intersecans urbem aeternam, divorumque veterum monumenta praestringens Ammian. xxv.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
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In spite of the fact that she was over seventy when Tiberius became emperor, in dedicated artwork she got progressively younger.22 Slowly but surely the round-faced visage of her earlier public portraits underwent a facelift, the severe nodus hairstyle with its bulky pompadour gradually replaced with a softer, more graceful center part, her wrinkles filled in, her skin made smoother, her expression calmer and more serene.
Caesars’ Wives
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Tiberius did not shrink from annexing dependent monarchies: Germanicus took over Commagene and Cappadocia, which made it possible to halve the Roman sales tax.
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In spite of the fact that she was over seventy when Tiberius became emperor, in dedicated artwork she got progressively younger.22 Slowly but surely the round-faced visage of her earlier public portraits underwent a facelift, the severe nodus hairstyle with its bulky pompadour gradually replaced with a softer, more graceful center part, her wrinkles filled in, her skin made smoother, her expression calmer and more serene.
Caesars’ Wives
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The drawings which illustrate my account of the discovery [45] prove that the altar rose from a platform twelve feet square, approached on all sides by three or four marble steps, that platform and altar were enclosed by three lines of wall at an interval of thirty-six feet from one another, and that on the east side of the square ran a _euripus_, or channel, eleven feet wide, and four feet deep, lined with stone blocks, the incline of which towards the Tiber is about 1: 100.
Pagan and Christian Rome
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The flipside to this scent is “Tiberius: Go Boldly”
Red Shirt cologne | My[confined]Space
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It stood almost on the bank of the river, where there was a bridge likewise called ‘Trionfale’ that debouched almost at the gate, the remains of which can be seen today in the middle of the Tiber.
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We find lacustrine marls on the sides of the Esquiline Hill where it slopes down into the Forum, and fresh-water bivalve and univalve shells in the ground under the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius on the Capitol; while on the face of the Aventine Hill, overhanging the Tiber at a height of ninety feet, is a cliff of travertine, which is half a mile long.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
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No painting better makes the point that these works record the city's daily life than his View of the Tiber at the Ripa Grande, even though the figures in the foreground have something of a biblical air and echo the staffage of Salvator Rosa; the canvas is big, roughly one metre high and two wide, the scale at which he is most at ease.
Evening Standard - Home
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Tiberius is only founded on the pretended apocryphal fasti of
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Rome over the Tiber was the timber Pons Sublicius, the bridge defended by
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Behind it Tiberius in a travelling-cloak, his hands unringed, marched meditating on the curiosities of life, while to the rear there straggled a troop of dancing satyrs, led by a mime dressed in resemblance of Augustus, whose defects he caricatured, whose vices he parodied and on whom the surging crowd closed in.
Imperial Purple
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And so, as I went down in my way from Tiberias towards Jerusalem, along the western bank of the stream, my thinking all propended to the ancient world of herdsmen and warriors that lay so close over my bridle arm.
Eothen
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Celtiberian Egnatius meriting fustigation for an untimely display of well-whitened teeth, sir: 'quicquid est, ubicunque est, quodcunque agit, renidet:': -- ha?
The Egoist
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The empire held together, because Augustus and Tiberius had created a centripetalism in the provinces; and these continued in the main through it all to enjoy the good government the first two emperors had made a tradition in them, and felt but little the hands of the fools or madmen reigning in
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
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Around the time of Easter last year, the knight I mentioned earlier, whom we called the prefect of Tiberiad, and who had been victorious in that battle, was involved in another encounter, less fortunate for our men, in which he was captured, and brought alive by the pagans to
The Deeds of God Through the Franks
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In Italy, Romans braved a cold wind yesterday to dive off a bridge into the river Tiber to mark a 30-year old New Year tradition.
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Nothing in his uncle Gaius so excited his envy and admiration as the fact that he had in so short a time run through the vast wealth which Tiberius had left him.
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SACK OF ROME BY THE VAND.LS, 455 A.D. In 455 A.D. the ships of the Vandals, led by their king, Gaiseric, appeared at the mouth of the Tiber.
Early European History
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And now the Thames, like the Tiber, is foaming with much blood.
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To the entrance of Tiberias: It is a strange thing the Targumist should be no better read in chorography, than to mistake the reading of this word in this place.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Jupiter, temple of, 14, 199; site for temple of, 31; cellae of temple, 53; temple on Island of the Tiber, 75; altars of, 125.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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Asinius, who was thirsting for empire, and Lucius Arruntius, who would have made the attempt to unseat him had the opportunity presented itself: -- "Tiberium et Liviam haeredes habuit ... in spem secundam, nepotes pronepotesque: tertio gradu primores civitatis scripserat, plerosque invisos sibi, sed jactantia gloriaque ad posteros" (An.I. 8).
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century
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The whole of the Loehf, or limits of the Ledja, is productive of saltpetre, which is sold at Damascus and Acre; I saw it sold near the lake of Tiberias for double the price which it costs in the Loehf.
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
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As tribune, Gaius reaffirmed Tiberius' Land Act and saw to it that it was finally implemented.
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Long after the hill beneath the U.S. Capitol had ceased to be called Rome, the river upon which ships ferried marble from the White House to the Capitol retained the name Tiber Creek.
The Atlantis Prophecy
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In the part of town between the Corso and the Tiber, which is full of narrow, crooked old streets, he loved to wander until he was lost.
Caesar or Nothing
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Apostles on the sea of _Tiberias_ in a storm so great, that the ship was covered with water and in danger of sinking, till _Christ rebuked the winds and the sea_, Matth. viii.
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
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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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Tiberio then caused the said loggia, which is the one facing the meadows, to be painted by Girolamo Sermoneta; which finished, the rest of the rooms were entrusted in part to Luzio Romano, and finally the halls and other important apartments were finished partly by Perino with his own hand, and partly by others after his cartoons.
Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi
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In addition to Bacco in Tevere, Naumache offers pizza and pasta beneath the arches of the Tiber's Ponte Rotta, or "Broken Bridge.
NYT > Home Page
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But check out where we're looking now: The latest Gulf of Mexico discovery, Tiber, is a well drilled to a depth of 35,000 feet and lies beneath 4,000 feet of water.
Double, double, oil
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The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it by
Les Miserables
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Then Nahum denounced the city and was slain by the populace, who proclaimed him and Jonah to be false prophets, since the doom the latter foretold does not come to pass, See Schwarz, _Das Heilige Land_, 1852, p. 259, identifying Kefar Tanchum near Tiberias with Nahum's burialplace] [Footnote 121: As to Jewish seats of learning in Babylon refer to Dr. Krauss's Article "Babylonia" in the _Jewish
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela
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Tiberius needed people to accept Livia as both kingmaker and Roman materfamilias par excellence.
Caesars’ Wives
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Evidence for this interpretation comes from the representation of a hexastyle Doric temple dedicated to the Gens Iulia on an issue of Corinthian bronze coins struck during the reign of Tiberius in A.D.32 / 3 or 33 / 4.
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The two chief districts were the country about Ravenna, the exarchate, where the exarch was the centre of the opposition, and the Duchy of Rome, which embraced the lands of Roman Tuscany north of the Tiber and to the south the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Roman trade coins, ranging from the silver dinarii, issued by Augustus, to the gold aurei, minted by Tiberius and Nero, are a highlight.
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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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Augustus was also very proud of the shows he offered to the Romans and one of the statements describes a naval battle on the Tiber which involved more than 30 triremes and biremes.
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Augustus are forgotten the terrible invective of Tacitus and the sarcasm of Juvenal recall the cruelties and the terrors of Tiberius.
Stray Studies from England and Italy
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He was too mad to be aware of the pain, and he continued to chant: "Tiberius is emperor; there is no king!
Chapter 17
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A peace had been concluded between the two nations on these terms, that the river Albula, now called Tiber, should be the common boundary between the Etrurians and Latins.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
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Britain would be "mad, literally mad" to abandon them to Amin's whim, he said - and then he coined the emotive phrase for which we will always remember him: "Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.
New Statesman
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Some manuscripts are pointed with what looks like the Land of Israel system written with Tiberian symbols.
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Cornelius Tacitus, who wrote at nearly the same period as Pliny, call them Florentia and Florentini; for, in the time of Tiberius, they were governed like the other cities of Italy.
The History of Florence
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Galilee, to the quiet surface of the Lake of Tiberias, to shepherds as peaceful as doves, or as sheep, who feed there among thyme and pepperwort.
Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
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Washington had always known it as Rome, because a century earlier a Maryland landowner named Francis Pope had a dream that a mighty empire to eclipse ancient Rome would one day rise on the banks of the Potomac, which he called the Tiber.
The Atlantis Prophecy
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And another soldier died when he was -- his armor personnel carrier was hit by an anti-tank rocket in the town of Tiber, which is about due west from where I am, part of that western push, a little bit further north by the Israeli military.
CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2006
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Close before me, as I leaned against the wall, a mangy, bearded, long-haired fanatic sprang up and down unceasingly, and unceasingly chanted: Tiberius is emperor; there is no king!
Chapter 17
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There was a delightful example of an unknown primitive master, a fourteenth-century Visitation, in which the Virgin had the stature and pure delicacy of a child of ten, whilst the Archangel, huge and superb, inundated her with a stream of dazzling, superhuman love; and in front of this hung an antique family portrait, depicting a very beautiful young girl in a turban, who was thought to be Cassia Boccanera, the _amorosa_ and avengeress who had flung herself into the Tiber with her brother
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
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The remaining 30 % of the planet is uninhabitable, a Tiberium wasteland swept by violent Ion Storms.
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There was a law made by the Roman senate, in Tiberius's time, perhaps upon complaint of this and the like precipitation, that the execution of criminals should be deferred at least ten days after sentence.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Dr. Clarke noticed among the pebbles near the Lake of Tiberias pieces of a porous rock resembling the substance called toadstone in England; its cavities were filled with zeolite.
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time
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There was a delightful example of an unknown primitive master, a fourteenth-century Visitation, in which the Virgin had the stature and pure delicacy of a child of ten, whilst the Archangel, huge and superb, inundated her with a stream of dazzling, superhuman love; and in front of this hung an antique family portrait, depicting a very beautiful young girl in a turban, who was thought to be Cassia Boccanera, the/amorosa/and avengeress who had flung herself into the Tiber with her brother
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1
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In the sixth century the school of Tiberias produced the celebrated Masorah, or fixed
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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A strong presumption of topographical reference can be posited for this bridge, given that a capriccio in the same set is based on the Tiber Island.
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We do know that there was a mixed Jewish and Gentile population in Tiberias.
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Mark's and Luke's (Mr 3: 18; Lu 6: 14), he follows the name of "Philip," who was the instrument of bringing Nathanael first to Jesus (Joh 1: 45); and again, when our Lord, after His resurrection, appeared at the Sea of Tiberias, "Nathanael of Cana in Galilee" is mentioned along with six others, all of them apostles, as being present (Joh 21: 2).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Tiberius displayed such ingenuity in inventing refinements in impudicity that it was necessary to coin new words to designate them.
Plain Facts for Old and Young
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Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus, popularly known simply as Tiberius, was the Roman emperor at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
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The Pope made history yesterday by becoming the first pontiff to cross the Tiber to address the Italian parliament.
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Deb and Lenny, Klaus und Inge, Marcel et Martine, all easing their t-shirted blubber in climate-controlled shopping, seemed to have jettisoned all thoughts of trekking the acclivitous hillside up the Via Tiberio to the Villa Jovis, high on the island's easternmost point.
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It is, indeed, believed that, in the time of Tiberius, there was a toparch of Edessa who had passed from the service of the Persians into that of the Romans, but his epistolary correspondence has been considered by all good critics as a chimera.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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But after the Romans occupied their territories, speakers of Gaulish and Celtiberian, major Continental Celtic languages, gradually came to speak Latin instead.
The English Is Coming!
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One of the hall's most spectacular new features is the Father Tiber garden with its ponds, fountains and water cascade.
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The skirret is a native of China, and was so much valued in Rome, that it is said the emperor Tiberius accepted the roots for tribute.
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The Romans lived through the long and peaceful reign of Augustus, barely recognising, until Tiberius and Caligula, how, with the most delicate republican tactfulness in shuffling offices, he had equipped them, if not with a king, certainly with a master.
2009 July 08 « Sigmund, Carl and Alfred
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Emathiam et latos Haemi pinguescere campos. scilicet et tempus ueniet cum finibus illis70 agricola incuruo terram molitus aratro exesa inueniet scabra robigine pila, aut grauibus rastris galeas pulsabit inanis, grandiaque effossis mirabitur ossa sepulcris. di patrii, Indigetes, et Romule Vestaque mater, 75 quae Tuscum Tiberim et Romana Palatia seruas, hunc saltem euerso iuuenem succurrere saeclo ne prohibete. satis iam pridem sanguine nostro
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