 | Sallust - 1829 - 408 pagine
...sometimes the hour. They used no signature, or subscription, unless when writing to emperors. There was very rarely an inscription on the outside, the letter...chalk. Hence the phrases for " to open a letter," are " vinculum solvere," " incidtre linum," " epistolam solvere." It was usual also for the bearer of the... | |
 | Sallust - 1831 - 410 pagine
...rarely an inscription on the outside, the letter being delivered to a letter-carrier, (Tabellarius,) who was made acquainted with the person for whom it...chalk. Hence the phrases for " to open a letter," are " vinculum sohere," " incidere linum," " epistolam solvere." It was usual also for the bearer of the... | |
 | Sallust - 1831 - 410 pagine
...sometimes the hour. They used no signature, or subscription, unless when writing to emperors. There was very rarely an inscription on the outside, the letter...seal was, generally, a head of the letter-writer, ur of some of his ancestors, impressed on wax or chalk. Hence the phrases for " to open a letter,"... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1834 - 538 pagine
...rarely any inscription on the outside, the letter being delivered to a letter carrier, Ttibellcirius, who was made acquainted with the person, for whom...some of his ancestors, impressed on wax, or chalk. " Signum iste animadvertit in cretula." Cic, " Cedo tu ceram, ac linum," " Give me the wax, and the... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1836 - 502 pagine
...rarely any inscription on the outside, the letter being delivered to a letter carrier, Tabellarius, who was made acquainted with the person, for whom...some of his ancestors, impressed on wax, or chalk. " Signum iste animadvertit in cretula." Cic. " Cedo tu ceram, ac linum," " Give me the wax, and the... | |
 | Sallust - 1837 - 384 pagine
...rarely an inscription on the outside, the letter being delivered to a letter-carrier, ( Tabellarius,) who was made acquainted with the person for whom it...chalk. Hence the phrases for " to open a letter," are " vinculum solvere," " incidere linum," " epistolam solvere." It was usual also for the bearer of the... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1838 - 594 pagine
...the intervention." — Inttgris tignis. " With the seals unbroken." Letters, among the Romans, were tied round with a string, the knot of which was sealed....generally a head of the letter-writer, or of some one of his ancestors, impressed on wax or chalk. Hence tho phrases for " to open a letter," are incidere... | |
 | Sallust - 1841 - 376 pagine
...outside, the letter being delivered to a letter-carrier, (Tabellariui,) who was made acquainted with (he person for whom it was intended. The letter was tied...was sealed. The seal was, generally, a head of the letter- writer, or of some of his ancestors, impressed on wax or chalk. Hence the phrases for " to... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1841 - 586 pagine
...the intervention." — Integris signis. " With the seals unbroken." Letters, among the Romans, were tied round with a string, the knot of which was sealed....generally a head of the letter-writer, or of some one of his ancestors, impressed on wax or chalk. Hence the phrases for " to open a letter," are incidere... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1842 - 506 pagine
...intervention." — Integris signis. t( With the seals unbroken." " Letters, among the Romans, were tied round with a string, the knot of which was sealed....generally a head of the letter-writer, or of some one of his ancestors, impressed on wax or chalk. Hence the phrases for ' to open a letter,' are incidere... | |
| |
Tabellarius,) who was made acquainted with the person for whom it was intended. The letter was tied round with a string, the knot of which was sealed. The seal was, generally, a head of the letter-writer, or of some of his ancestors, impressed on wax... 
