Saint Isidore of Seville, one of the greatest scholars of the early Middle Ages, is widely recognized as being the author of the first known encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, the Etymologiae or Origines ( around 630 ), in which he compiled a sizable portion of the learning available at his time, both ancient and modern.

Deckard's story is interwoven with that of J. R. Isidore ( a surname Dick also used in Confessions of a Crap Artist ), a " special " ( i. e. genetically-damaged ) driver for an animal repair shop who cannot qualify to leave Earth due to his " special " status.

The actual transition may be captured by Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae ( 7th century AD ), an etymological dictionary.

* Petequakey (‘ Comes to Us With the Sound of Wings ’, better known as Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, as son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was a Métis he became chief of the Willow Cree an the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother and counselor of chief Kee-too-way-how ( a. k. a. Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau ), after Kee-too-way-how had left the reserve on the Muskeg Lake to live around Batoche, became Petequakey chief ( 1880 – 1889 ) of the remaining Cree and Métis living in the reserve, he participated on 26 March 1885 along with the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont at the battle at Duck Lake, thereafter he led his tribal group to St. Laurent to participate in the defense of Batoche, one of the largest Métis settlements and the seat of the Saskatchewan's provisional government during the rebellion )

Simpson's system of taxonomy, however, was far from the first ; taxonomies / descriptions for the classification of intersexuality were developed by Italian physician and physicist Fortuné Affaitati in 1549, French surgeon Ambroise Paré in 1573, French physician and sexology pioneer Nicolas Venette in 1687 ( under the pseudonym Vénitien Salocini ), and French Zoologist Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire in 1832.

* Hippolyte Isidore Dreyfus-Barney ( 1873 – 1928 ), prominent early Bahá ' í

Isidore in the 7th century thought the word was from Greek βαρύς " heavy " ( because of the " heavy work " done by mercenaries ), but the word is presumably of Old Frankish origin, cognate with Old English beorn meaning " warrior, nobleman ").

Isidore de Lara, born Isidore Cohen ( 9 August 18582 September 1935 ), was an English composer and singer.

* Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre ( 1758 – 1794 ), French revolutionary leader

Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte ( 19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857 ), better known as Auguste Comte (), was a French philosopher.

Broca first become acquainted with anthropology through the works of Isidore Geoffroy-Saint Hilaire ( 1805 – 1861 ), Antoine Étienne Reynaud Augustin Serres ( 1786 – 1868 ) and Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau ( 1810 – 1892 ), and anthropology soon became his lifetime interest.

Damascius's biography of his teacher Isidore ( perhaps a part of the philosophos historia attributed to Damascius by the Suda ), of which Photius has preserved a considerable fragment.

St. Isidore of Seville's etymology is, if doubtful, certainly colourful: " Thanet is an island in the Ocean in the Gallic channel ( English channel ), separated from Britannia by a narrow estuary, with fruitful fields and rich soil.

Until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls ( DSS ), the only surviving manuscripts of Jubilees were four complete Ge ' ez texts dating to the 15th and 16th centuries, and several quotations by the Church fathers such as Epiphanius, Justin Martyr, Origen, Diodorus of Tarsus, Isidore of Alexandria, Isidore of Seville, Eutychius of Alexandria, John Malalas, George Syncellus, and George Kedrenos.

Many of the earliest Christians who followed the Septuagint calculated creation around 5500 BC, and Christians up to the Middle-Ages continued to use this rough estimate: Clement of Alexandria ( 5592 BC ), Julius Africanus ( 5501 BC ), Eusebius ( 5228 BC ), Jerome ( 5199 BC ) Hippolytus of Rome ( 5500 BC ), Theophilus of Antioch ( 5529 BC ), Sulpicius Severus ( 5469 BC ), Isidore of Seville ( 5336 BC ), Panodorus of Alexandria ( 5493 BC ), Maximus the Confessor ( 5493 BC ), George Syncellus ( 5492 BC ) and Gregory of Tours ( 5500 BC ).

Ammianus relates ( xvii. 1. 11 ) that much later the Emperor Julian undertook a punitive expedition against the Alemanni, who by then were in Alsace, and crossed the Main ( Latin Menus ), entering the forest, where the trails were blocked by felled trees.

Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's actual sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe ; but Ammianus in fact says that “ the Drasidae ( Druids ) recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine " ( Res Gestae 15. 9 ), an indication that the immigrants came to Gaul from the north ( Britain, the Netherlands or Germany ), not from a theorized location in the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west.

He responds by sending the ageing general Frigeridus with elite reinforcements that Ammianus calls ‘ Pannonian and Transalpine auxiliaries ( Pannonicis et Transalpinis auxiliis ).’ Gratian sends also Richomeres, his Frankish commander of household troops ( comes domesticorum ), at the head of a number of troops drawn from the Gallic field army.

14 ), and Ammianus Marcellinus ( xxiv.

His election caused considerable surprise, and it is suggested by Ammianus Marcellinus that he was wrongly identified with another Jovianus, chief notary ( primicerius notariorum ), whose name also had been put forward, or that during the acclamations the soldiers mistook the name Jovianus for Julianus, and imagined that the latter had recovered from his illness.

Ancient toponyms for Samarra noted by the Samarra Archaeological Survey are Greek Souma ( Ptolemy V. 19, Zosimus III, 30 ), Latin Sumere, a fort mentioned during the retreat of the army of Julian the Apostate in 364 AD ( Ammianus Marcellinus XXV, 6, 4 ), and Syriac Sumra ( Hoffmann, Auszüge, 188 ; Michael the Syrian, III, 88 ), described as a village.

The biographical tradition of the tenth century Byzantine ( Suda ) defines Theon as " the man from the Mouseion "; however, both the Library of Alexandria and the Mouseion may not have existed in the fourth century as Ammianus Marcellinus ( Historia 22. 15, 12-13 ), writing in 378 refers to the Serapeum Library as thing of the past, destroyed in the time of Julius Caesar.

From an ethnic point of view, Roman authors associated blond and reddish hair with the Gauls and the Germans: e. g., Virgil describes the hair of the Gauls as " golden " ( aurea caesaries ), Tacitus wrote that " the Germans have fierce blue eyes, red hair, huge frames "; in accordance with Ammianus, almost all the Gauls were " of tall stature, fair and ruddy ".

The conspirators had the support of two tribuni fabricarum ( officers of the weapons factories ) who had promised the weapons for an uprising ( Ammianus Marcellinus, 14. 7. 18 ), and probably of the troops in Mesopotamia, as well as of the rector of the province of Phoenice.

Adiabene occupied a district in Assyria between the Upper Zab ( Lycus ) and the Lower Zab ( Caprus ), though Ammianus speaks of Nineveh, Ecbatana, and Gaugamela as also belonging to it.

Such was the violence and bloodshed that the two praefecti of the city were called in to restore order, and after a first setback, when they were driven to the suburbs and a massacre of 137 was perpetrated in the basilica of Sicininus ( as cited in Ammianus Marcellinus ), the prefects banished Ursicinus to Gaul.

The first reference to an ecclesiastical feast of the Epiphany, in Ammianus Marcellinus ( XXI: ii ), is in 361.

Orat., iii ; Ammianus, XXI, vi, 4 ), succeeded in bringing about a conference of bishops at Sirmium.

Ammianus Marcellinus, 4th century soldier and historian ( Res Gestae ), after pointing out that the Rhine had previously been governed by two iurisdictiones, describes the provincial division of his times.

The appeal to Mazda for a boon reappears in Yasht 5. 98, where the boon is asked for the Haugvan As with the medieval Zoroastrian chronology that identifies Vishtaspa with " Ardashir " ( see above ), Ammianus ' identification was once considered to substantiate the " traditional date " of Zoroaster.

According to Ammianus Marcellinus ( Res Gestae xx 7 ), in 360.

IV ), in the 2nd century CE and as Alexandria by Ammianus Marcellinus ( xxiii. 6. 42 ) in the 4th century.

Born in Constantinople around 420, he went to Alexandria to study in the school of the Neoplatonic philosopher Proclus ; among his fellow students there were Marcellinus ( magister militum and governor of Illyricum ), Flavius Illustrius Pusaeus ( Praetorian prefect of the East and Consul in 467 ), Messius Phoebus Severus ( Consul in 470 and praefectus urbi ), and Pamprepius ( Pagan poet ).

* Marcellinus ( writer ), author of the life of Thucydides

* Marcellinus ( magister officiorum ) ( d. c. 351 ), officer of Emperor Constans and of usurper Magnentius

* Marcellinus of Gaul ( d. 374 ), saint and evangelist

* Marcellinus of Carthage ( d. 413 ), saint and martyr

* Marcellinus and Peter ( d. 304 ), two Christian martyrs

* Marcellinus Comes ( Count Marcellinus ), 6th-century chronicler

Following St. George the founder, later medieval local traditions evoke a legendary list of bishops at this chief town of the pays of Le Velay: Macarius, Marcellinus, Roricius, Eusebius, Paulianus, and Vosy ( Evodius ), all of them canonized by local veneration.

Her first husband is unknown, although it had been suggested that he was Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus ( consul 56 BC ), as there is an inscription that refers to freedmen ( post 39 BC ) of Scribonia and her son Cornelius Marcellinus, indicating that she had a son from her previous marriage and that he was living with her after she divorced her third husband.