A nineteenth-century British classicist famously asked, ' What would we not barter of all the epics of empire for ten lines of Gallus?

It is a literal translation in the Kentish dialect of a French treatise entitled Le Somme des vices et des values ( also known as Le Miroir du monde or Le Livre des commandemens, & c .), which was written in 1279 by Laurentius Gallus, a Dominican monk and confessor to Philip III of France.

The word " Gallus " is also the Latin word for rooster.

* Gallus, the Latin word for an inhabitant of Gaul

* Gallus, usually used in the plural, another word for suspenders

') It is not known whether Kromer intended the word " Gallus " as a proper name or as a reference to the author's nationality ( Gallus in this period normally means, " a Frenchman "), nor what he based his identification on.

The name Gallus originates from the German word " Galgen " ().

He was featured on the cover of Scottish rock band Gun's second album, Gallus, in 1992.

* Gallus ( album ) is the second album by the Scottish rock band Gun.

The second most popular theory about the origin and sense of Mieszko's name can be traced to the very old legend, firstly described by Gallus Anonymus, according to which Mesco ( the Latinized form used by the earliest sources ) was blind during his first seven years of life.

Gallus place of origin is unknown.

" In Poland, medievalist Professor Jacek Banaszkiewicz supports a French over an Italian origin for Gallus Anonymus.

In Eclogue 10, Virgil caps his book by inventing a new myth of poetic authority and origin: he replaces Theocritus ' Sicily and old bucolic hero, the impassioned oxherd Daphnis, with the impassioned voice of his contemporary Roman friend, the elegiac poet Gaius Cornelius Gallus, imagined dying of love in Arcadia.

The first documented use of the name puhsa ( pronounced Buchsa, in Latin buxum, meaning " box ") is found in the writings of Saint Gallus in 886 CE.

Cases include the mallard duck, wild boar, the rock dove or pigeon, the Red Junglefowl ( Gallus gallus ) ( ancestor of all chickens ), carp, and more recently salmon.

* Gallus ( biology ), the bird genus in the pheasant family that includes the wild form of the domesticated chicken Gallus gallus.

C. Cornelius Gallus was advancing from Paraetonium ; and Octavian himself landed at Pelusium, with the connivance it was believed of Cleopatra.

; 2nd ed., 1806 ), which was translated into French and served as a model for Wilhelm Adolf Becker's Gallus and Charicles.

It must have been rebuilt almost at once, for several bases for statues exist, inscribed Augusto sacr ( um ) Perusia restituta ; but it did not become a colonia, until 251-253 AD, when it was resettled as Colonia Vibia Augusta Perusia, under the emperor C. Vibius Trebonianus Gallus.

In later Greek literature the doctrine appears from time to time ; it is mentioned in a fragment of Menander ( the Inspired Woman ) and satirized by Lucian ( Gallus 18 seq .).

In June 251, Decius was killed in battle with the Goths ; immediately following this Trebonianus Gallus became Emperor.

Jacobus Gallus Carniolus ( a. k. a. Jacob ( us ) Handl, Jacob ( us ) Händl, Jacob ( us ) Gallus ; Slovenian Jakob Petelin Kranjski ) ( 3 July 1550 – 18 July 1591 ) was a late Renaissance composer of Slovenian ethnicity.

In that sense the pages of literary history are peopled with shadows: Aquilius Gallus, Quintus Hortensius Hortalus, Lucius Licinius Lucullus and many others who left a reputation but no readable works ; they are to be presumed in the Golden Age by their associations.

The Flaminian Way, here in purple, divided into two branches next to modern Terni ; Aemilian, who was descending from north upon Rome, defeated Trebonianus Gallus on the eastern branch.

While Aemilian descended upon Rome along the Flaminian Way, Trebonianus Gallus and his son and colleague Volusianus had him proclaimed " enemy of the State " by the Roman senate, then exited Rome to meet the usurper ; this strategy is a clue that Aemilian's army was smaller than theirs, as it is probable that they did not expect the reinforcements to come in time, but trusted their larger army to win the clash.

The two armies met at Interamna Nahars ( modern Terni ), at the southern end of the eastern branch of the Flaminia, and Aemilian won the battle ; Gallus and Volusianus fled with few followers towards north, probably to gather time before the arrival of the reinforcements, but at Forum Flaminii ( modern San Giovanni Profiamma ), on the western branch of Flaminia, they were killed by some of their own guards, who thought that their betrayal could earn them a reward.

; 351-352: Jewish revolt, directed against Constantius Gallus, is put down.

x. I, 93 ), " Elegia quoque Graecos provocamus, cuius mihi tersus atque elegans maxime videtur auctor Tibullus ; sunt qui Propertium malint ; Ovidius utroque lascivior, sicut durior Gallus.

" (" In Elegy as well we rival the Greeks ; of whom for me the author Tibullus seems the most polished and elegant ; there are those who prefer Propertius ; Ovid is more wanton than either, just as Gallus is more stern.

Prehistorically, the genus Gallus was found all over Eurasia ; in fact it appears to have evolved in southeastern Europe.

* Gaius Sulpicius C. f. C. n. Gallus, a great scholar ; as consul in 166 BC, triumphed over the Ligures.

* several ancient Romans ; see Gallus ( cognomen )

The second prefect, Aelius Gallus, made an unsuccessful expedition to conquer Arabia Petraea and even Arabia Felix ; however, the Red Sea coast of Egypt was not brought under Roman control until the reign of Claudius.

himself answered to him in 1555, there was open, inter-Protestant controversy about Eucharist, which involved on the side of the Reformed Lasco, Bullinger, Ochino, Valerandus Polanus, Beza, and Bibliander ; on the side of the Lutherans Timann, Heshusius Paul von Eitzen, Schnepff, E. Alberus, Gallus, Flacius, Judex, Brenz, and Andreä.

Gallus himself was one of the only imperial males, outside of the three sons of Constantine I and Fausta, who were not killed ; the others being Gallus ' younger half-brother, Julian, and their cousin, Nepotian, each of whom was very young at the time.

Constantius, after his experience with Gallus, intended his representative to be more a figurehead than an active participant in events, so he packed Julian off to Gaul with a small retinue and Constantius ' prefects in Gaul would keep him in check.

This conjecture seems to be confirmed in the introduction of the first volume of the chronicles of Gallus Anonymus concerning the Pomeranians: Although often the leaders of the forces defeated by the Polish duke sought salvation in baptism, as soon as they regained their strength, they repudiated the Christian faith and started the war against Christians anew.

" Rooster ( Gallus domesticus ) bones were identified at Lachish dating to early Iron II ", but even earlier not to be ruled out, which corresponds was well with " as for Palestine, the earliest chicken bones are present in Iron Age I strata in Lachish and Tell Hasben ".

* The king of Illyria, Gentius, is defeated at Scodra by a Roman force under Lucius Anicius Gallus and then brought to Rome as a captive to be interned in Iguvium.

One literary tradition claims that Decius was betrayed by his successor Trebonianus Gallus, who was involved in a secret alliance with the Goths but this cannot be substantiated and was most likely a later invention since Gallus felt compelled to adopt Decius ' younger son, Gaius Valens Hostilianus, as joint emperor even though the latter was too young to rule in his own right.

He then moved quickly to Italy, where he defeated Emperor Trebonianus Gallus, only to be killed by his own men when another general, Valerian, proclaimed himself Emperor and moved against Aemilian with a larger army.

As the city center is built on an unstable turf ground ( thanks to its founder Gallus who was looking for a hermitage and not founding a city ), all buildings on the valley floor must be built on piles.

The arrest of Montius Magnus led to the discovery of what seems to be a plot to elevate an usurper against Gallus.

Gallus in an exhibition of his presumed soon to be Augustus powers, staged a chariot race in Constantinople's Hippodrome and crowned the victor, an honor reserved only for those that are Augustus.

Gallus tried to put the blame of all of his actions on Constantina, but Constantius sentenced him to death ; the emperor later changed his mind, and ordered the caesar to be spared, but Eusebius ordered that the news was not to reach the executioners.

Since the Asinius Gallus seems to have been the Lucius Asinius Gallus who became a Consul in 60, by exclusion of parts the Gnaeus Asinius must be the Asinius Saloninus.

Since the Asinius Gallus seems to have been the Lucius Asinius Gallus who became a Consul in 60, by exclusion of parts the Gnaeus Asinius must be the Asinius Saloninus.

The career of Aulus Didius Gallus up to 51 can be partly reconstructed from an inscription from Olympia.

" It reads: Gallus hanc historiam scripsit, monachus, opinor, aliquis, ut ex proemiis coniicere licet qui Boleslai tertii tempore vixit ( Gallus wrote this history, some monk, in my opinion, who lived in the time of Bolesław III, as can be conjectured from the preface.

What Gallus did write about himself may be summed up as follows: Before going to Poland, he likely spent some time in Hungary, where he met Polish King Bolesław III Wrymouth ; he was a pilgrim ; he revered Saint Giles ; and he knew little about Scandinavia.

Fałkowski has noted that the two theories — French and Italian — may be less mutually exclusive than some think, as Gallus might have been born in Italy, been a monk at the Lido, and have later traveled to France and Hungary.

He can hardly be identical with the Chaeremon who accompanied ( c. 26 BCE ) Aelius Gallus, prefect of Egypt, on a journey into the interior of the country.

The Rhetorica ad Herennium can be seen as part of a liberal populist movement, along with those like Plotius Gallus who began teaching in Latin.