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The twelfth month of the year, so called, i. e. tenth, by the Romans, as their year began with March.
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The patricians of Rome, with Consular powers, appointed in 450 B.C. to prepare a code of laws for the Republic, which, after being agreed upon, were committed first to ten, then to twelve tables, and set up in the Forum that all might read and know the law they lived under.
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Roman emperor from 249 to 251; was a cruel persecutor of the Christians; perished in a morass fighting with the Goths, who were a constant thorn in his side all through his reign.
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The name of three Romans, father, son, and grandson, who on separate critical emergencies (340, 295, 279 B.C.) devoted themselves in sacrifice to the infernal gods in order to secure victory to the Roman arms; the name is mostly employed ironically.
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The immortal work of Gibbon, of which the first volume was published in 1776.
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French littérateur; translator of the novels of Sir Walter Scott and Fenimore Cooper (1767-1843).
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A title conferred by Pope Leo X. in 1521 upon Henry VIII. for his defence of the Catholic faith in a treatise against Luther, and retained ever since by the sovereigns of England, though revoked by Pope Paul III. in 1535 in consequence of Henry's apostasy.
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The wife of Hercules, whose death she had been the unwitting cause of by giving him the poisoned robe which Nessus had sent her as potent to preserve her husband's love; on hearing the fatal result she killed herself in remorse and despair.
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A son of Priam and Hecuba, second in bravery to Hector; married Helen after the death of Paris, and was betrayed by her to the Greeks.
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A town in Syria, once the capital of the Druses, on a terrace in the heart of the Lebanon Mountains.
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