mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-07 | Author:Hans Josef Klauck

At a later date, the Church fathers drew above all on the Bible in their polemic against astrology (cf. Riedinger). The very fact that they continually had to fight a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Moss, Candida [Moss, Candida]

THERE’S NO DOUBT THAT Christians thought they were persecuted; they ruminate on it, theologize about it, bewail, lament, protest, and complain. Nor should we underestimate the reality of their experiences. ...

mobi |eng | 2013-10-02 | Author:VIRGIL

BOOK 8 When Turnus had assembled all his pow'rs, His standard planted on Laurentum's tow'rs; When now the sprightly trumpet, from afar, Had giv'n the signal of approaching war, Had ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Jerry Toner [Toner, Jerry]

COMMENTARY Falx’s tougher side re-emerges in this chapter. But the physical punishment of slaves by their Roman masters was normal, acceptable and routine. In Roman comedies by Plautus, for example, ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Adrian Goldsworthy

There was still heavy fighting, and the Romans' line was ragged as the legionaries formed up with the first officer or standard-bearer they met, just as they had done when ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

III. THE LAW OF PERSONS “All law,” says the precise Gaius, “pertains to persons, to property, or to procedure.”3 The word persona had signified an actor’s mask; later it was ...

mobi |es | 2009-07-21 | Author:Isaac Asimov

El nuevo imperio en Occidente En los tiempos del Séptimo Concilio Ecuménico, e1 emperador Constantino VI tenía cerca de veinte años y quiso poner fin a la regencia. Irene se ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Edward Gibbon [Gibbon, Edward]

[Footnote 46: Gregory of Tours (l. ii. c. 37, in tom. ii. p. 181) inserts the short but persuasive speech of Clovis. Valde moleste fero, quod hi Ariani partem teneant ...

mobi |es | 2011-10-31 | Author:William Peter Blatty

De regreso en la Comisaría, Kinderman pasó a través del ruidoso cuarto de la brigada, entró en su oficina y cerró la puerta. Atkins estaba esperándole. Se apoyaba contra una ...

epub |deu | 2011-06-07 | Author:Felix Dahn [Dahn, Felix]

Neuntes Kapitel Trotz alledem, sagten die Römer, hätten längst die Goten die Mauern erstiegen, wäre nicht des Präfecten Egeria gewesen. Denn es war merkwürdig: sooft die Barbaren einen Sturm vorbereiteten ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Edward Gibbon [Gibbon, Edward]

Part VI. Athanasius had indeed escaped from the most imminent dangers; and the adventures of that extraordinary man deserve and fix our attention. On the memorable night when the church ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:Jeremiah McCall [McCall, Jeremiah]

Chapter 4 The Political Battle for Syracuse Late in 211 or early in 210, Marcellus returned from Sicily. He left his troops there under his successor, though apparently unwillingly, since ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2005-11-30 | Author:Morgan, Gwyn [Morgan, Gwyn]

8 The Beginning of the End: Vespasian through August 69 To understand the campaign by the Balkan legions that unseated Vitellius in late December 69, we must deal first with ...

mobi |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

XII TO SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS YOU tell me in your letter that you are extremely alarmed by a dream; apprehending that it forebodes some ill success to you in the case ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Adrienne Mayor

Mithradates and his entourage ascended Buyuk Evliya Dag, to the sanctuary of Zeus the Warrior. Archaeologists have discovered many inscriptions in this important site of native Anatolian and Iranian- influenced ...