In a variant of the story, Sextus and Lucius, at a wine party on furlough, were debating the virtues of wives when Lucius volunteered to settle the debate by their all riding to his home to see what Lucretia was doing.

A century later the travel writer Pausanias recorded a novel variant of the story, in which Narcissus falls in love with his twin sister rather than himself ( Guide to Greece, 9. 31. 7 ).

In one account, Proetus had yet another daughter, Nyctaea, who fled from her own father's attempts of violation and was changed by Athena into an owl ; her story is a variant for that of Nyctimene.

A variant of this story later appears in English folklore as the " Pedlar of Swaffham " and Paulo Coelho's " The Alchemist "; Jorge Luis Borges ' collection of short stories A Universal History of Infamy featured his translation of this particular story into Spanish, as " The Story Of The Two Dreamers.

Gardner mentions, among other examples of conjecture, Chaos, Co-ordinated, a science fiction story by John MacDougal, and cites Norbert Wiener as saying in his book Cybernetics that the human brain, just like a computing machine, probably works on a variant of the famous principle expounded by Lewis Carroll.

The Marvelous Orange Tree trick was used by the eponymous conjurer in Steven Millhauser's short story, " Eisenheim The Illusionist ", subsequently filmed as The Illusionist ( 2006 ), where a more complex variant is shown.

( Also see Oedipus for a variant of this story.

Heinlein includes a variant verse to the hymn Eternal Father, Strong to Save, dedicated " to those who venture into space ," in the story.

In " Race to the South Seas " ( March of Comics # 41, 1949 ), a Donald Duck story by Carl Barks, a variant of Shyster appeared as Scrooge McDuck's lawyer, but his appearance differed from that in the Mickey Mouse strip and he was not depicted as a villain in that story.

The story of Iphis is similar to that of Leucippus from Phaestus, Crete, and could be a variant thereof.

The same Smith Sound Eskimo also told a variant of the Adlet story related by Boas in " The Central Eskimo.

A Malaysian variant of an Indonesian story explains that the first complete system of silat was created by a woman who was carrying a basket of food on her head when birds tried to steal the food from her.

The well-known kaidan ( or Japanese ghost story ) of is set in Edo ( Tokyo ), but a variant called is set in Himeji Castle.

According to the notes by Cecil Sharp on a variant of the Ballad of Little Sir Hugh, the story is as follows:

This is an unusual variant on the story of such a prophecy, as Acrisius ' actions did not, in this variant, cause his death.

A variant of this story later appears in English folklore as the " Pedlar of Swaffham ".

* Another variant has 8 to 10 detailed characters as suspects, each with a detailed background and story.

Under the influence of that story, the name " Blunderbore " is frequently appropriated by other legendary giants ; the later fairy tale " Tom the Tinkeard ", a local Cornish variant of " Tom Hickathrift ", contains a similar account of the hero's battle with a giant named Blunderbore.

For example, Countdown # 16 introduced his evil Earth-3 counterpart, a member of the villainous Crime Society of America — and a similar Booster Gold exists on the Antimatter Universe, as suggested in a 1992 Justice League comic book, with Booster's evil variant first appearing in a 2005 Super Buddies story.

The MS-06 Zaku is still a major force in Gundam, with almost every new side story in the Universal Century adding a new variant to the basic frame.

From an early German folk tale, this is a variant on Allerleirauh as well as containing elements of the Cinderella story recorded by the brothers Grimm.

Liberal conservatism is a variant of conservatism that combines conservative values and policies with classical liberal stances.

Conservative liberalism is a variant of liberalism that combines liberal values and policies with conservative stances, or, more simply, the right wing of the liberal movement.

* Penalty under, Zero Over: A variation of exact scoring that combines variants with and without penalties ; overtricking scores zero points while undertricking results in a penalty according to the specific exact scoring variant used.

Neoconservatism is a variant of the political ideology of conservatism which combines features of traditional ( paleo ) conservatism, military interventionism, social conservatism, nationalism, and a qualified endorsement of free markets.

Moreover, constitutional monarchy is a variant form, of monarchic political legitimacy, which combines traditional authority and legal – rational authority, by which means the monarch maintains nationalist unity ( one people ) and democratic administration ( a political constitution ).

A variant form of real estate-based timeshare that combines features of deeded timeshare with right-to-use offerings was developed by Disney Vacation Club ( DVC ) in 1991.

3 ) Annual # 1 gives Donna a new origin that combines elements of her three variant origins.

A variant of the Spanish cha-cha-chá is popular, as is a Carolinian " stick dance " which combines improvised percussion and foot stomping.

The Killer Sudoku variant combines elements of Sudoku and Kakuro.

Beggar-My-Neighbour ( alternatively Beggar-Thy-Neighbour or Beggar-Your-Neighbour, each a bowdlerization reflecting the substitution of " beggar " for " bugger "), also known by the etymologically unrelated names Jack Daniels, Beat Jack Out of Doors, Beat Your Neighbour Out of Doors, Beat your Neighbour Out of Town, Strip Jack Naked, Picture and Draw the Well Dry, is a simple card game somewhat similar in nature to War, and has spawned a more complicated variant, Egyptian Ratscrew.

Mexican stud is also a variant of Seven-card stud, employing the same roll your own rules.

Another popular variant is " Roll your own ," in which four rounds of two cards each are dealt down, and each player must " roll " one card to face up, followed by a round of betting.

A variant of IANAL is IANYL (" I am not your lawyer ").

A variant, Setz dich auf deine fünf Buchstaben (" sit down on your five letters "), alludes to the vulgar use of the word Arsch, meaning " arse " ( UK ) or " ass " ( US ).

Since it is impossible to determine for sure whether or not your opponent's bomb is still active ( unless he has detonated it ), bluff is part of a good strategy in this variant.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the " slang " term in your face originated in the United States in 1976 ; the 1989 edition and its updated editions provide examples of its usage in variant spellings such as in yo ' face from 1976 through the 1990s:

* Landcycling-A variant on cycling, this allows you to cycle a card to search your library for a land of the cycling type rather than drawing a card.

Such metagaming could include compiling lists of what race or army choices are being used in a specific region or tournament scene, and tailoring your own army to fight the majority units, for example, knowing that Space Marine variant armies are the largest group of potential opponents, and modifying your own army with equipment which counters the strength of that majority force, or preys upon that majority group's weakness.

In modern print, a distinction is made between the letter in its original alphabetic role as a consonant sign, which is rendered as " Ϝ " or its modern lowercase variant " ϝ ", and the numeric symbol, which is represented by " ϛ " ( or, in modern practice in Greece, replaced with " στ ").

Common historical examples include the Winchester Model 1892, Lee-Enfield " Jungle Carbine ", Mauser K98 Kurz, SKS, M1 carbine ( no relation to the larger M1 Garand ) and M4 carbine ( a more compact variant of the current M16 rifle ).

Thomas W. Malone of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology champions a modern variant of the guild structure for modern " e-lancers ", professionals who do mostly telework for multiple employers.

Chen is in charge of the engine room and operates the " digital conveyor ", a variant of the Star Trek transporter.

The English term has cognates in the other Germanic languages: Old Saxon heƀan " sky, heaven ", Middle Low German heven " sky ", Old Icelandic himinn " sky, heaven ", Gothic himins ; and those with a variant final-l: Old Frisian himel, himul " sky, heaven ", Old Saxon / Old High German himil, Dutch hemel, and modern German Himmel.

A modern haggis variant often served in higher class restaurants is the " Flying Scotsman ", which is chicken breast stuffed with haggis.

* Kaddish ahar Hakk ' vura ( קדיש אחר הקבורה ) Literally " Kaddish after a Burial ", also called Kaddish d ' Ithadata ( קדיש דאתחדתא ) named after one of the first distinguishing words in this variant.

A variant of Galaxy is " Galaxy Squared ", which uses square window buttons rather than round ones.

The word entered English from a French word which probably derived from Italian moschea, a variant of Italian moscheta, from either Armenian mzkiṭ or Greek μασγίδιον, from Arabic masjid, meaning " place of worship " or " prostration in prayer ", from the Arabic sajada, meaning " to bow down in prayer " or " worship ", probably ultimately of Aramaic origin.

The name Mecklenburg derives from a castle named " Mikilenburg " ( Old Saxon: " big castle ", thus the Grecised name variant Megalopolis used in Medieval Latin sources ), located between the cities of Schwerin and Wismar.

His fans particularly liked the ragtime songs " Salty Dog " and " Candy Man ", and the blues ballads " Spike Driver Blues " ( a variant of " John Henry ") and " Frankie ".

Any other approach Rand termed " the primacy of consciousness ", including any variant of metaphysical subjectivism or theism.

An additional variant of potato chips exists in the form of " potato sticks ", also called " shoestring potatoes ".

The original use of an adjective to describe a particular variant of an object is typically purely compositional, as in " acoustic guitar ", but gradually over time it becomes a collocation, a name or technical term in its own right with additional nuances, greater specificity and general but implicit agreement on it as the appropriate term versus alternative descriptions of the original type.

The expanded Pseudo-Ignatian version of Magnesians, possibly from the middle of the 3rd century, rewrites this passage to make " Lord's " refer to the first day ( the variant textual reading of kata kyriaken zontes, " living according to the Lord's ", is supported by the medieval Latin manuscript Codex Caiensis 395, " secundum Dominicam viventes ").

The word sect comes from the Latin noun secta ( a feminine form of a variant past participle of the verb sequi, to follow ), meaning "( beaten ) path ", and figuratively a ( prescribed ) way, mode, or manner, and hence metonymously, a discipline or school of thought as defined by a set of methods and doctrines.

Symbolics ' Zmacs text editor, a variant of Emacs, was implemented in a text-processing package named " ZWEI ", an acronym for " Zwei was Eine initially " — " Eine " being an acronym for " Eine Is Not Emacs " ( both recursive acronyms and puns on the German words for " One " (" Eins ", " Eine ") and " Two " (" Zwei ")).

An early form of the script, " Proto-Tifinagh ", also known as the Libyco-Berber script, probably developed from the Punic variant of the Phoenician alphabet.

( A relatively uncommon variant allows " no shift ", say N, as a third element of the latter set.