A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Abridged from the Larger DictionaryJohn Murray, 1868 - 474 pagine |
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Pagina 5
... five years in commemoration of his victory , The plaintiff then prayed for an action , and if the praetor allowed it ( dabat actionem ) , he then declared what action he intended to bring against the defendant , which he called edere ...
... five years in commemoration of his victory , The plaintiff then prayed for an action , and if the praetor allowed it ( dabat actionem ) , he then declared what action he intended to bring against the defendant , which he called edere ...
Pagina 8
... Five Hundred . Peisistratus is said to have been the first to introduce a law for the maintenance of those persons who had been mutilated in war . ADVOCATUS , seems originally to have signified any person who gave another his aid in any ...
... Five Hundred . Peisistratus is said to have been the first to introduce a law for the maintenance of those persons who had been mutilated in war . ADVOCATUS , seems originally to have signified any person who gave another his aid in any ...
Pagina 13
... five hundred and fifty of the leading patriots to be put to death , and those who survived the massacre were carried to Rome as prisoners . AĚTŌMA ( άéтwμa ) . [ FASTIGIUM . ] AFFĪNES , AFFINITAS , or ADFĪNES , ADFĪNĪTAS . Affines are ...
... five hundred and fifty of the leading patriots to be put to death , and those who survived the massacre were carried to Rome as prisoners . AĚTŌMA ( άéтwμa ) . [ FASTIGIUM . ] AFFĪNES , AFFINITAS , or ADFĪNES , ADFĪNĪTAS . Affines are ...
Pagina 15
... five for the city , and five for the Peiraeeus , and they were chosen by lot . The principal duty of the Agoranomi was , as their name imports , to inspect the market , and to see that all the laws respect- ing its regulation were ...
... five for the city , and five for the Peiraeeus , and they were chosen by lot . The principal duty of the Agoranomi was , as their name imports , to inspect the market , and to see that all the laws respect- ing its regulation were ...
Pagina 24
... five kinds : -1 . The laws ; 2. Written docu- as part of the head - dress . The frontal of a ments ; 3. Testimonies of witnesses present horse was called by the same name . The ( μapтupía ) , or affidavits of absent witnesses annexed ...
... five kinds : -1 . The laws ; 2. Written docu- as part of the head - dress . The frontal of a ments ; 3. Testimonies of witnesses present horse was called by the same name . The ( μapтupía ) , or affidavits of absent witnesses annexed ...
Parole e frasi comuni
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Pagina 93 - The client contributed to the marriage portion of the patron's daughter, if the patron was poor, and to his ransom, or that of his children, if they were taken prisoners ; he paid the costs and damages of a suit which the patron lost, and of any penalty in which he was condemned ; he bore a part of the patron's expenses incurred by his discharging public duties, or filling the honourable places in the state.
Pagina 355 - The stola was the characteristic dress of the Roman matrons, as the toga was of the Roman men. Hence the meretrices were not allowed to wear it, but only a dark-coloured toga, and accordingly Horace (Sat.
Pagina 309 - Formerly these troops had been recruited in Italy; and, as the adjacent provinces gradually imbibed the softer manners of Rome, the levies were extended to Macedonia, Noricum and Spain. In the room of these elegant troops, better adapted to the pomp of courts than to the uses...
Pagina 269 - ... and proclaimed the amount of his debt. If no person released the prisoner by paying the debt, the creditor might sell him as a slave or put him to death. If there were several creditors, the letter of the law...
Pagina 411 - Their chief office was to watch by turns, night and day, the everlasting fire which blazed upon the altar of Vesta, its extinction being considered as the most fearful of all prodigies, and emblematic of the extinction of the state. If such misfortune befell, and was caused by the carelessness of the priestess on duty, she was stripped and scourged by the pontifex maximus, in the dark and with a screen interposed, and he rekindled the flame by the friction of two pieces of wood from a felix arbor.
Pagina 46 - In the Greek states the temples, altars, sacred groves, and statues of the gods, generally possessed the privilege of protecting slaves, debtors, and criminals, who fled to them for refuge. The laws, however, do not appear to have recognised the right of all such sacred places to afford the protection which was claimed...
Pagina 195 - ... people, who presented each of them with a rudis or wooden sword ; whence those who were discharged were called Rudiarii. Gladiators were divided into different classes, according to their arms and different mode of fighting, or other circumstances. The names of the most important of these classes...
Pagina 144 - The large room on the right of the peristyle is the triclinium ; beside it is the kitchen ; the smaller apartments which surround it and the atrium are chambers for the use of the family. The one next to the private entrance into the peristyle is called the library, and is lighted by the window, of which a view has been already given from without, p.