According to the Mishnah and Tosefta, in the Maccabean, Herodian, and Mishnaic periods, new months were determined by the sighting of a new crescent, with two eye witnesses required to testify to the Sanhedrin to having seen the new lunar crescent at sunset.

According to Herodian he was well proportioned and attractive, with naturally blonde and curly hair.

According to the historian Herodian, in AD 216, Caracalla tricked the Parthians into believing that he accepted a marriage and peace proposal, but then had the bride and guests slaughtered after the wedding celebrations.

According to Herodian he had governed provinces, but the list of seven provinces given in the Historia Augusta, as well as the statement that Balbinus had been both Proconsul of Asia and of Africa, are likely to be mere invention.

According to Edward Gibbon ( drawing upon the narratives of Herodian and the Historia Augusta ):

According to Edward Gibbon ( drawing on the narratives of Herodian and the Historia Augusta ), the choice was sensible, as:

* According to the History of Free Masonry, Volume 6, Heredia is a name derived from Herod the Great and his Herodian Kingdom.

According to the archaeologists, the door was reused in a structure in Roman Egypt.

According to the mythology outlined by Virgil in the Aeneid, Romulus and Remus were both descendants of Aeneas through their mother Rhea Silvia, making Aeneas progenitor of the Roman people.

According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

According to the orthodox Thomism of the Roman Catholic Church, Aristotle rightly regarded reason as a facility of the individual soul.

According to N. H. Baynes ( Byzantium, An Introduction to East Roman Civilization ):

According to the Roman poet Ovid ( Fasti v. 379 ), the constellation honors the centaur Chiron, who was tutor to many of the earlier Greek heroes including Heracles ( Hercules ), Theseus, and Jason, the leader of the Argonauts.

According to Strabo, by the time of emperor Augustus, up to 120 Roman ships were setting sail every year from Myos Hormos in Roman Egypt to India.

According to David, the Romano-Germanic legal systems included those countries where legal science was formulated according to Roman Law, whereas common law countries are those where law was created from the judges.

According to the Historia Augusta, the Roman emperor Hadrian issued a decree banning circumcision in the empire,

According to Harper's New Monthly Magazine: As such, according to one viewpoint, for those who " belong to the Church ," the term Methodist Catholic, or Presbyterian Catholic, or Baptist Catholic, is as proper as the term Roman Catholic.

According to Suetonius, he was the first Roman Emperor who had demanded to be addressed as dominus et deus ( master and god ).

According to the terms of the treaty, Syracuse would become a Roman ally, would pay a somewhat light indemnity of 100 talents of silver to Rome, and, perhaps most importantly, would agree to help supply the Roman army in Sicily.

" According to some records, the original seventh letter, ⟨ z ⟩, had been purged from the Latin alphabet somewhat earlier in the 3rd century BC by the Roman censor Appius Claudius, who found it distasteful and foreign.

According to Caesar, the captured Roman soldiers were ordered to pass through under a yoke set up by the triumphant Gauls, a dishonour that called for both public as well as private vengeance.

According to Kallistos Ware, some Western theologians, both Roman Catholic and Anglican, see the theology of Palamas as introducing an inadmissible division within God ; however, others have incorporated his theology into their own thinking, maintaining, as Jeffrey D. Finch reports, that there is no conflict between his teaching and Roman Catholic thought.

According to census data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2004, Irish Australians are, by religion, 46. 2 % Roman Catholic, 15. 3 % Anglican, 13. 5 % other Christian denomination, 3. 6 % other religions, and 21. 5 % as " No Religion ".

According to Theodor Mommsen ( The History of Rome, volume 4, The Revolution, ISBN 1-4353-4597-5, page 4 ), 1 January became the first day of the year in 600 AUC of the Roman Calendar ( 153 BC ), due to disasters in the Lusitanian War.

According to the 2000 census, 87. 9 % of the population is Christian, of which 76 % adhere to the Roman Catholic faith, while about 7 % are Protestant.

According to scholar James Butrica, lesbianism " challenged not only the Roman male's view of himself as the exclusive giver of sexual pleasure but also the most basic foundations of Rome's male-dominated culture ".

According to Roman tradition, Tarquinius Superbus gained the kingship by ordering the assassination of his much-admired predecessor, Servius Tullius.

According to one story that first appeared in a 1475 posthumous biography and was subsequently embellished and popularized by Pierre-Simon Laplace, Callixtus III excommunicated the 1456 apparition of Halley's Comet, believing it to be an ill omen for the Christian defenders of Belgrade from the besieging armies of the Ottoman Empire.

According to some, Wyatt was captured by the armies of Emperor Charles V when they captured Rome and imprisoned the Pope in 1527 but managed to escape and then made it back to England.

According to his own records, Gudea brought cedars from the Amanus and Lebanon mountains in Syria, diorite from eastern Arabia, copper and gold from central and southern Arabia, while his armies were engaged in battles with Elam on the east.

Some members of the DPS were present in covert operations in Zaire ( 1997 and 2001 ), Madagascar ( in 2002, Didier Ratsiraka called for some mercenaries to resolve the political crisis ), Côte d ' Ivoire ( 2001 – 2003 ) According to the Voltaire network, the DPS had been created with the help of Jacques Foccart and François de Grossouvre ( leader of the French branch of Gladio, NATO's secret armies ) after the dissolving of the Service d ' Action Civique ( SAC ) &.

According to the 1454 Incorporation Statute issued by King Casimir IV, Royal Prussia enjoyed substantial autonomy as part of the Crown of Poland, it had its own treasury and monetary unit and armies.

According to a slogan of Frédéric Bastiat ( 1801-1850 ), " When goods cannot cross borders, armies will.

According to one estimate more than 2, 500 German soldiers served at Yorktown with each of the British and French armies, and more than 3, 000 German-Americans were in Washington's army.

According to Livy the elections for 297 took place amid rumours that that Etruscans and Samnite were raising huge armies and that the Etruscans were blaming their leaders for not allying with the Gauls.

According to Manuel de Landa, " he put together his armies as a well-oiled clockwork mechanism whose components were robot-like warriors ".

According to the plan of the Serbian Supreme Command, three Serbian armies ( First, Second and Third ) were supposed to encircle and destroy the Vardar Army in that area, with First Army advancing from the north ( direction Vranje-Kumanovo-Ovče Pole ), Second Army advancing from the east ( direction Kriva Palanka-Kratovo-Ovče Pole ) and Third Army advancing from the north-west ( direction Priština-Skopje-Ovče Pole ).

According to Republican General Sak Sutsakhan, the withdrawal of U. S. forces, after only a 30-day campaign, created " a void so great on the allied side that neither the Cambodian nor the South Vietnamese armies were ever able to fill it.

According to Mignet's History of the French Revolution, " The republic had very soon fourteen armies, and twelve hundred thousand soldiers.

According to Saxo Grammaticus, both hosts prepared for seven years, and mustered armies of 200 000 men.

According to Gildas and various later medieval sources, the failure of the Roman armies to secure the Britain led the Britons to invite Anglo-Saxon mercenaries to the island, precipitating the Anglo-Saxon invasion.

According to written accounts of the engagement from the era, the two armies were likely close to same size at 40, 000 men each.

According to the initial plan the Swedes should attack the sleeping Danish camp with cavalry in the south-east, but reconnaissance patrols reported that the ground between the two armies was unsuitable for mounted troops.

According to the Polish mobilization scheme, they were to become mobile reserves of the Polish armies and other major strategic-scale units.

According to the various reports, he converted either out of " wounded pride ", fear of the personal consequences of the death of Sultan Mahmud's wife while under his care as a physician or fear of execution when he was taken prisoner in a battle between the armies of the caliph and that of the sultan.

According to the Getica, he was the Gothic king who halted the advance of the Egyptian armies of the Egyptian king Sesostris ( whom Jordanes calls Vesosis ).

According to Elara, they saw many visions of the commander dying many times — and only in one vision does the commander live and even rise to control massive armies and bring peace to Arrakis.

According to that Royal Hungary would be occupied by three Austrian armies, the remnants of the Hungarian constitution abolished and a grand-scale program of German colonisation implemented.

According to the legend, Good King Wenceslas and his knights will arise from their slumber when the Czechs are attacked by a number of armies equal to or greater than four ( from four cardinal directions ).

According to old folks, it was during World War II that the big snakes were gone because the Japanese occupation armies annihilated them by trolling in the sea carcasses and other big chunks of meat stuffed with bombs.