( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

According to Macrobius, related that offerings were made to her ut annare perannareque commode liceat, i. e. " that the circle of the year may be completed happily " and that people sacrificed to her both publicly and privately.

" According to Macrobius, the Books of the Pontiffs ( pontificum libri ) treated Bona Dea, Fauna, Ops, and Fatua as names for the same goddess, Maia.

According to the Roman author Macrobius, and English antiquarian John Brand, the word " Epiphania " was transformed into Befana, the great fair held at that season, when sigillaria of terracotta or baked pastry were sold.

According to Macrobius, who plundered his work for his Saturnalia, he was " the learned man of his age ".

According to Josep Puig, the Andalusian astronomer Ibn Bajjah proposed that the Milky Way was made up of many stars which almost touched one another and appeared to be a continuous image due to the effect of refraction from sublunary material, citing his observation of the conjunction of Jupiter and Mars on 500 AH ( 1106 / 1107 AD ) as evidence.

According to Nevill ( citing the historian Sir Edward Creasy ), what Wellington said, while passing an Eton cricket match many decades later, was, " There grows the stuff that won Waterloo ", a remark Nevill construes as a reference to " the manly character induced by games and sport " amongst English youth generally, not a comment about Eton specifically.

According to Hoffman ( p. 131, 1988 ) citing Brigadier ( ret.

According to Taner Akçam, citing the Osmali Belgelerinde Ermeniler 1915 – 1920 ( Armenians in Ottoman Documents, 1915 – 1920 ), after the Turks took back the city from the Russians, they killed all Armenians in the city.

According to Charlotte Rampling, Bogarde was approached in 1990 by Madonna to appear in her video for Justify My Love, citing The Night Porter as an inspiration.

According to a 1980 Time Magazine article citing analysts from RAND Corporation, allegedly Soviet non-Slavs, including Jews, Armenians, and Asians were generally barred from senior ranks and from joining elite or strategic positions in the Air Force, Strategic Rocket Forces, and the Soviet Navy because of doubts regarding the loyalty of ethnic minorities.

According to one opinion, the apprehension that the offender might leave the Jewish fold on account of the severity of the excommunication did not prevent the court from adding rigor to its punishments so as to maintain its dignity and authority ( Shulkhan Arukh, Yoreh De ' ah, 334, 1, Rama's gloss, citing Sefer Agudah ).

According to the VENONA files, on September 13, 1944, the KGB New York station sent a message to Moscow that Vladimir Pravdin, a NKVD ( the predecessor of the KGB ) officer working under cover as a correspondent for the Soviet news agency TASS, had been trying to contact a person by codename " BLIN " ( the Russian word for pancake ) in Washington, but that " BLIN " had been refusing to meet, citing a busy schedule.

According to a 1980 TIME Magazine article citing analysts from RAND Corporation, Soviet non-Slavs were generally barred from joining the Strategic Rocket Forces because of suspicions of loyalty of ethnic minorities to the Kremlin.

According to the Columbus Dispatch, citing the Elias Sports Bureau, the last player to score three goals unassisted was Maurice " Rocket " Richard ( who scored four ) against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on March 14, 1948.

According to a San Francisco Weekly newspaper account, citing no sources but based largely on interviews with two former political allies of White, he quit the force after reporting another officer for beating a handcuffed black suspect.

According to a 1980 Time article citing analysts from RAND Corporation, non-Slavs were generally prohibited from joining elite or strategic positions in the armed forces like the Navy, Strategic Rocket Forces and the Soviet Air Force because of suspicions of the loyalty of ethnic minorities.

According to Caldicott, citing a 30 March 1979 study by the Pennsylvania State University, College of Engineering, radiation contaminants that fell on the Pennsylvania grass found their way into the milk of the local dairy cows.

According to Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Non-proliferation Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, citing a Pakistani news article, Pakistan is developing its own equivalent to the Davy Crockett launcher with miniaturized warhead that may be similar to the W54.

According to a study in the journal of the Canadian Medical Association, "( 70 %) stated that they would prefer a minimum-wage job, typically citing a desire for a ' steady income ' or ' getting off the street.

According to one of Cohen's biographers, Ira Nadel, " reaction to the album was largely negative ," citing negative reviews from Rolling Stone magazine ( which titled its review " Leonard Cohen's Doo-Wop Nightmare ") and The Toronto Star.

According to the Haitian press, on March 25, 2009, Jean-Jacques Pierre announced his retirement from the national side citing false accusations against him.

* 720, 000 According to www. jafi. org citing " Irving Howe and Carl Gershman ( eds.

According to Howard Bryant of the Washington Post, citing NFL. com, " Lloyd suffered through the worst season for a starting receiver in the Super Bowl era ... No starting No. 2 wide receiver in the NFL started more games ( 12 ) while producing less ( 23 catches, 365 yards ).

According to the BBC and ITV, both listed on DEC's website as part of DEC's " Rapid Response Network ", most other charitable organisations approached declined the offer of free space citing reputational concerns over association with the title.

According to Heenan, Pillman apologized to him for the incident backstage, citing he did not know of Heenan's history of neck problems beforehand, and more specifically that Heenan had been labeled " no-touch " by management because of his injuries.

According to the New York Times ( March 10, 1992, citing figures from the Lebanese police ), 3, 781 were killed in the fighting.

According to himself he denied an offer from the club, citing it was too short of a contract to be interesting.

According to PK Dey, a human-rights lawyer from Delhi, Dorje Shugden worshippers are suffering harassment from the Dalai Lama's followers and his government, citing door-to-door searches and wanted posters as examples.

According to Cicero, Nigidius tried with some success to revive the doctrines of Pythagoreanism, which would have included mathematics, astronomy and astrology, and arcana of the magical tradition.

According to Cicero, he had a homosexual relationship with Gaius Scribonius Curio.

According to Cicero, Fadia bore Antony several children.

According to the philologist Max Müller, the root of the English word " religion ", the Latin religio, was originally used to mean only " reverence for God or the gods, careful pondering of divine things, piety " ( which Cicero further derived to mean " diligence ").

According to the Parian Marble, Sappho was exiled to Sicily sometime between 604 and 594 and Cicero records that a statue of her stood in the town-hall of Syracuse.

According to Cicero the marriage caused a semi-scandal as Brutus failed to state a valid reason for his divorce from Claudia other than he wished to marry Porcia.

According to Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philologist and philosopher, and Constantine Paparrigopoulos, a major Greek historian, Demosthenes was a student of Isocrates ; according to Cicero, Quintillian and the Roman biographer Hermippus, he was a student of Plato.

According to Cicero, the auctoritas of ius augurum included the right to adjourn and overturn the process of law: consular election could be-and was-rendered invalid by inaugural error.

According to Cicero, the Roman philosopher who was writing in the first century BC, Posidonius constructed a planetary model.

According to the coherent chronology of Cicero, Cato was born in 234 BC, in the year before the first Consulship of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, and died at the age of 85, in the consulship of Lucius Marcius Censorinus and Manius Manilius.

According to Cicero, Themistocles wasn't much impressed with the poet's invention: " I would rather a technique of forgetting, for I remember what I would rather not remember and cannot forget what I would rather forget.

According to Hesiod, Phobetor is the son of Nyx, the primordial goddess of the Night, produced parthenogenetically, or as Cicero claims, with Erebus, the embodiment of Darkness.

According to Cicero, any man who caught even a glimpse of the rites could be punished by blinding.

According to Dumezil, Festus ' identification of Bona Dea with Damia infers a foundation date in or shortly after 272 BC, after Rome's capture of Tarentum ; but Cicero claimed the goddess ' cult as coeval with Rome's foundation.

According to Cicero another sanctuary dedicated to the cult of Furrina was located near Satricum.

According to Cicero, the Manes could be called forth from the caves near Lake Avernus.

According to Machiavelli refers to Xenophon more than Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero put together.

According to Plutarch, Hannibal was influenced by them and they received praise from Cicero.

According to Cicero ( or rather his character Torquatus ) Epicurus also believed that pleasure was the chief good and pain the chief evil.

According to Cicero, the Romans considered themselves the most religious of all peoples ; and their extraordinary success proved it.

According to Hesiod, Nyx, the primordial goddess of the Night, produced the " tribe of Dreams " () parthenogenetically, though Cicero says that Dreams were the children of Night and Erebus, the embodiment of Darkness.

According to Arthur H. Minters the " private collecting of books was a fashion indulged in by many Romans, including Cicero and Atticus.

According to Cicero, Publius Sulpicius Rufus and Cotta were the best speakers of the young men of their time.

According to Valerius Maximus, Suetonius and Cicero, Claudius threw them into the sea, ut biberent, quando esse nollent (" so that they might drink, since they refused to eat ").

Bruun argues that within § 34 of Pro Caelio Cicero powerfully employs “ the oratorical technique of “ personification ” or “ speech in character ” ( prosopopeia ) and for a while pretended, apparently both by gestures and by voice, to be one of Clodia ’ s most famous ancestors, the censor Appius Claudius Caecus .” According to Bruun, Appius proclaims to have spurred three major civic accomplishments, while for each Cicero attempts to point out a reason why Clodia should be ashamed of herself for immorality connected with the Appian works.