Tacitus ( De origine et situ Germanorum XXIX ) described the Batavi as the bravest of the tribes of the area, hardened in the Germanic wars, with cohorts under their own commanders transferred to Britannia.

Besides this may be mentioned editions of the New Testament apocrypha, De Evangeliorum apocryphorum origine et usu ( 1851 ); Acta Apostolorum apocrypha ( 1851 ); Evangelia apocrypha ( 1853 ; 2nd ed., 1876 ); Apocalypses apocryphae ( 1866 ), and various minor writings, partly of an apologetic character, such as Wann wurden unsere Evangelien verfasst?

* History of Scotland, De origine, moribus, ac rebus gestis Scotiae libri decem, John Leslie

* Trattatello in laude di Dante ( 1357, title revised to De origine vita studiis et moribus viri clarissimi Dantis Aligerii florentini poetae illustris et de operibus compositis ab eodem )

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* Around this time, the historian Jordanes writes several books, among them De origine actibusque Getarum ( The origin and deeds of the Goths ).

* Wagenvoort, Hendrik, " The Origins of the goddess Venus " ( first published as " De deae Veneris origine ", Mnemnosyne, Series IV, 17, 1964, pp. 47 – 77 ) in Pietas: selected studies in Roman religion, Brill, 1980.

* Goell, H. A., De triumphi Romani origine, permissu, apparatu, via ( Schleiz, 1854 )

* De origine et auctoritate verbi Dei ( 1550 );

He started work on the Germania Illustrata with Germania generalis and De origine, situ, moribus et institutis Norimbergae libellus (" Booklet of structure, habits and institutions of Nuremberg ").

Other works include: De Pentateuchi Samaritana origine, indole, et auctoritate ( 1815 ), supplemented in 1822 and 1824 by the treatise De Samaritanorum theologia, and by an edition of Carmina Samaritana ; Paläographische Studien über phönizische u. punische Schrift ( 1835 ), a pioneering work which he followed up in 1837 by his collection of Phoenician monuments ( Scripturae linguaeque Phoeniciae monumenta quotquot supersunt ); an Aramaic lexicon ( 1834 – 1839 ); and a treatise on the Old South Arabian language, then called Himyarite, written in conjunction with Rödiger in 1841.

* De l ' origine du langage ( 1858 )

The logic contains a sketch of the history of the science De origine et varietate logicae, and is divided into theory of right apprehension ( bene imaginari ), theory of right judgment ( bene proponere ), theory of right inference ( bene colligere ), theory of right method ( bene ordinare ).

De origine actibusque Getarum ( The Origin and Deeds of the Getae / Goths ), or the Getica, written in Late Latin by Jordanes ( or Jornandes ) in 551, claims to be a summary of a voluminous account by Cassiodorus of the origin and history of the Gothic people, which may have had the title " Origo Gothica " and which is now lost.

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He was the author also of two small treatises entitled De mensibus and De origine Turcarum.

Heinrich Bullinger, De origine erroris libris duo ( 1539 ) detailed the pagan " origins of ( Catholic ) errors ".

Besides a number of archaeological works, especially in the department of numismatics, he published in 1694 a compilation from the Arabic, Persian and Turkish, entitled Paroles remarquables, bons mots et maximes des orientaux, and in 1699 a translation from an Arabic manuscript, De l ' origine et du progrès du café.

* De l ’ origine et du progrès du café, La Bibliothèque, coll.

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Similarly it has been suggested that the Vinoviloth mentioned by Jordanes in De origine actibusque Getarum in the 6th century CE could have been Kvens.

Dudo of Saint-Quentin, in his De moribus et actis primorum Normannorum ducum, tells of a powerful Danish nobleman at loggerheads with the king of Denmark, who had two sons, Gurim and Rollo ; upon his death, Rollo was expelled and Gurim killed.

From the statements of Walter Burley ( a 14th-century monk ) in his De vita et moribus philosophorum the text of Diogenes seems to have been much fuller than that which we now possess.

In 1647 he published the well-received treatise De vita, moribus, et doctrina Epicuri libri octo.

One later, tenth-century source, Dudo of Saint-Quentin's De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum, records that Rollo forced the Frisians to pay tribute, but this is unlikely.

There is also a story told by Dudo of Saint-Quentin in his De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum of how Reginar Langhals was ransomed by his wife in 880 for all the gold in Hainault, but this is probably a legend.

* De moribus veterum Gallorum ( Paris, 1559 ; second edition, Basel, 1572 )

* Beversen, N I: De Luci Licini Luculli vita ac moribus commentatio ( Stockholm, 1888 ).

Agricola was a military tribune with that army, and his experiences are chronicled by Tacitus in his biography, De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae.

* Johann Maier Eck, De vita, moribus, et studiis M. Ant.

He was called dux by Dudo of Saint-Quentin, who Richard commissioned to write his De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum ( Concerning the Customs and Deeds of the First Dukes of the Normans ), but this use of the word dux may have been in the context of a war leader and not a title.

In his two sermons " De vitâ et moribus clericorum suorum " Augustine seeks to dispel the suspicions harbored by the faithful of Hippo against the clergy leading a monastic life with him in his episcopal residence.

The teaching concerning religious poverty is clearly formulated in the sermons " De vitâ et moribus clericoreun suorum " and the authorship of these two works is sufficient to earn for the Bishop of Hippo the title of Patriarch of monks and religious.

Monasteries of women or of canonesses were formed on the same plan, but not according to the rules laid down in the sermons " De vitâ et moribus clericorum.

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De moribus et actis primorum Normanniæ ducum.

But unlike most it was probably started in the late 1050s as a continuation of Dudo's De moribus.