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Let us take the story of St Laurence, written in iambics, in verses of four lines each. In the time of the persecutions of Valerian, the Roman prefect, devoured by greed, summoned St Laurence, the treasurer of the church, before him, and on the plea that parents were making away with their fortunes to the detriment of their children, demanded that the sacred vessels should be given up to him.
Nevertheless I still live; and there will come a day when Sigismund and Gertrude shall be comforted and the slanderers punished. For poor Valerian was right, and there is an Avenger, in whom even my progenitor believes, and before whom he trembles.
He might have been assassinated, but all the power of Rome could not have compelled him to a war, the issue of which might have been, by the rescue of Valerian, to lose him his throne. 'Then he should have been assassinated. Rome owed herself a greater duty than allegiance to a beast in human form. 'But, Galpurnius, you now enjoy your liberty. Why consider so curiously whence it comes?
In the centre is a group of seven figures, comprising: Sapor, who is on horseback in his usual costume; Valerian, who is under the horse's feet; Miriades, who stands by Sapor's side; three principal tribute bearers in front of the main figure; and a Victory, which floats in the sky. Another important work, assigned by tradition to Sapor I, is the great dike at Shuster.
Give one drop in baulm water, or Valerian water six days together, the seventh day give three drops in good wine, and it is sufficient. In the Falling Sickness, and its kinds, as Epilepsie, Catalepsie, and Analepsie. In the beginning of the Fit give the Patient two drops in Sage-water, after three hours, give him three drops more, and it is sufficient.
Valerian was her brother's baptismal name, and it was about his absence she was anxious. For this she had reasons more than one. Though still only a young girl, she quite understood the political situation of the Mexican Republic; at all times shifting, of late more critical than usual.
They no longer inhaled the soft languid perfumes of aromatic plants, the musky scent of thyme, and the incense of lavender. Now they were treading a foul-smelling growth under foot; wormwood with bitter, penetrating smell; rue that reeked like putrid flesh; and hot valerian, clammy with aphrodisiacal exudations.
In the middle of the third century they were firmly settled in Dacia, by permission of Valerian. One hundred years after, pressed by Huns, they asked for lands south of the Danube, which request was granted by Valens; but they were rudely treated by the Roman officials, especially their women, and treachery was added to their other wrongs.
After this it would seem that the retreat was unmolested, and Sapor succeeded in conveying the greater part of his army, together with his illustrious prisoner, to his own country. With regard to the treatment that Valerian received at the hands of his conqueror it is difficult to form a decided opinion.
L. E. D. Tussilago stands recommended in coughs and other disorders of the breast and lungs: the flowers were an ingredient in the pectoral decoction of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia. VALERIANA officinalis. VALERIAN. Root. L. E. D. Valerian is a medicine of great use in nervous disorders, and is particularly serviceable in epilepsies proceeding from a debility in the nervous system.
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