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ETEX, ANTOINE (1808-1888), French sculptor, painter and architect, was born in Paris on the 2oth of March 1 808. He first ixhibited in the salon of 1833, his work including a reproduction in marble of his " Death of Hyacinthus," and the plaster cast of his " C ...

... aving both parents alive. Each wore a wreath of corn, a white fillet and the praetexta. The election of members was by co-optation on the motion of the president, who, with a flamen, was himself elected for one year. The great annual festival which they had to ...

... lations from Euripides. One or two were original dramas, of the class called praetextae, i.e. dramas founded on Roman history or legend; thus, the Ambracia treated of the capture of that city by his patron Nobilior, the Sabinae of the rape of the Sabine women. ...

... e embroidered toga (Tertull.£>eCor. 13), and so too the golden bulla and the praetexta (Festus, s.v. " Sardi "). Such things give us an idea as to the aristocratic basis of the government. Of the actual laws we know something also. Cicero (Din. ii. 23) tells t ...

... succession of Augustus II. to the throne of Poland having afforded Austria a pretext for attacking France, war was resolved on, contrary to the advice of Eugene (1734). In spite of this, however, he was appointed to command the army destined to act upon the R ...

... d. But he marched no further than Dumfries, and then turned back, on the vain pretext that he must conduct his parent's funeral in person. Leaving Bruce to gather fresh strength and to commence the tedious process of reducing the numerous English garrisons in ...

... arms, forbade him to enter the mosque, and in 1879 procured his exile on the pretext that he entertained democratic and revolutionary ideas. Thus the later movements of thought in Islam never touch on the great questions that exercised Mahommedanism in its fi ...

... rts and imports without consent of parliament. But Mary had, under a specious pretext, recommenced to a slight extent the evil practice, and Elizabeth had gone a little further in the same direction. In 1606 a merchant named John Bates (q.v.) resisted the paym ...

... or Manuel I., urged on by the Genoese and other rivals of Venice, seized tjie pretext. The Venetians were arrested and their goods confiscated. Popular feeling at Venice ran so high that the state was rashly swept into war with the empire. To provide the requi ...