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Quod privatus a populo petit, aut populus a privato, senatus ex aliqua civitate, qui judicet, datur, cui alternoe civitates rejectoe sunt. Quod vivis Romanus a siculo petit, siculus judex datur quod siculus a cive Romano, civis Romanus datur. Coeterarum rerum selecti judices ex civium Romanorum conventu proponi solent.
Gall, and of Florence. Perhaps a word about these ancient Virgils will not be unwelcome. They are cited in all the textbooks, it is true, but I think they are apt to be confused; at any rate it is easy to confuse them. They are five in number: three very fragmentary, two more or less complete. The surnames they go by are Sangallensis, Augusteus, Vaticanus, Romanus, Mediceus.
This majestic world is a fine periphrasis of the Roman Empire; majestic, because the Romans ranked themselves on a footing with kings, and a world, because they called their empire Orbis Romanus; but the whole story seems to allude to Cæsar's great exemplar, Alexander, who, when he was asked whether he would run the course of the Olympic games, replied, 'Yes, if the racers were kings. So again in Anthony and Cleopatra, Act I. Scene I. Anthony says with an astonishing sublimity,
Farewell. To ROMANUS FIRMUS The rank you bear in our province, as decurio, is a proof that you are possessed, at least, of an hundred thousand sesterces;15 but that we may also have the satisfaction of seeing you a Roman Knight,16 I present you with three hundred thousand, in order to make up the sum requisite to entitle you to that dignity.
The rule of the Abassids of Bagdad had been well-nigh demolished by the Seljukian Turks in 1058. They founded in the eleventh century an extensive empire. The sultan, Alp Arslan, took the emperor, Romanus IV. Diogenes, prisoner , and conquered Armenia.
Board her, and have her hatches off at once. You'll stand no nonsense, I know." "All right, sir," cried the lieutenant, an active, somewhat imperious officer, of the Civis Romanus sum type. He had been unusually disgusted at his commander's decision to leave The Black Swan without searching her; and he was delighted that a more active policy had been begun.
Among the Romans, the grandest of all colonizers, the individual's Civis Romanus sum I am a Roman citizen was something more than verbal vapouring; it was a protective talisman a buckler no less than a sword.
And for so doing this shall be your warrant. By the King. At our Castle of Winchester, the morrow of Saint Romanus." Lady Foljambe turned to the Duke and inquired when it would be his pleasure to speak with the prisoner. "When her physician counts it meet," said he, with a slight movement of his shapely shoulders, which did not augur much gratification at the prospect before him.
He was received as the deliverer of his country; and, as soon as it appeared that Romanus was formidable only to a submissive province, the tyrant of Africa became the object of universal contempt.
Romanus, with a sigh, subscribed this treaty, so disgraceful to the majesty of the empire; he was immediately invested with a Turkish robe of honor; his nobles and patricians were restored to their sovereign; and the sultan, after a courteous embrace, dismissed him with rich presents and a military guard.
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