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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Valerius
Britannica 11thVALERIUS, PUBLIUS, surnamed PUBLICOLA (or POPLICOLA), " friend of the people," the colleague of Brutus in the consulship in the first year of the Roman republic (509 B.C.). According to Livy and Plutarch, his family, whose ancestor Volusus had settled in Rome ...
Vol. 27, pp. 859-859
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Evagrius
Britannica 11thEVAGRIUS (c. 536-600), surnamed SCHOLASTICUS, Church historian, was born at Epiphania in Coele-Syria. His surname shows him to have been an advocate, and it is supposed that he practised at Antkxrh. He was the legal adviser of Gregory, patriarch of that city,
Vol. 9, pp. 959-959
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Apollonius Of Rhodes
Britannica 11th... teemed by the Romans, was imitated by Virgil (Aeneid, iv.), Varro Atacinus, and Valerius Flaccus. Marianus (about A.D. 500) paraphrased it in iambic trimeters. Apollonius also wrote epigrams; grammatical and critical works; and Krurtts (the foundations of citi ...
Vol. 2, pp. 188-188
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Ether
Britannica 11th... d on alcohol was known in about the i3th century; and later Basil Valentine and Valerius Cordus described its preparation and properties. The name ether appears to have been applied to the drug only since the times of Frobenius, who in 1730 termed it spiritus ...
Vol. 9, pp. 806-806
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