According to legend, Ambrose immediately and forcefully stopped Arianism in Milan.

According to legend, Castor and Pollux announced to one of their ancestors the victory of the Romans over the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus, and, to confirm the truth of what they had just said, they stroked his black hair and beard, which immediately became red.

According to legend, Albertus Magnus is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it to his pupil Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death.

According to a version of the Ariadne legend noted by Plutarch, Theseus abandoned Ariadne at Amathousa, where she died giving birth to her child and was buried in a sacred tomb.

According to the legend, it was where festive Adonia took place, in which athletes competed in hunting wild boars during sport competitions ; they also competed in dancing and singing, all to the honour of Adonis.

According to legend, this prompted Ananda to focus his efforts on the attainment of nibbana and he was able to reach the specified level of attainment before the calling of the conclave.

According to popular legend, his raiders gained access to the walled town with the aid of a local woman who sympathised with the rebellion, letting a small party in via the Market Street gate at midnight.

* Nicholas of Flue ( According to legend, he survived for nineteen years with no food except for the Eucharist.

According to the Aztec legend, Aztlán is a region ; Chicano nationalists have equated it with the Southwestern United States.

According to legend, the cross was erected over the kistvaen ( burial chamber ) of Childe the Hunter, who was Ordulf, son of Ordgar, an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Devon in the 11th century.

According to a legend, it is derived from the Forefather Čech, who brought the tribe of Czechs into its land.

According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6: 1-4 " is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology ", and the " sons of God " mentioned in that passage are " celestial beings of mythology ".

According to a Sinhalese legend, Kandyan dances originated 250 years ago, from a magic ritual that broke the spell on a bewitched king.

According to one authority ( a legend on the 1489 map of Henricus Martellus Germanus ), Cão died off Cape Cross ; but João de Barros and others wrote of his return to the Congo, and subsequent taking of a native envoy to Portugal.

According to legend, the publication of his poem Hymn to the Pillory caused his audience at the pillory to throw flowers instead of the customary harmful and noxious objects and to drink to his health.

According to the legend Orestes founded Nemi together with Iphigenia.

According to the legend the flag, Dannebrog, was given to the Danes from God himself, and from that day forward, it was the flag of Denmark and the Danish kings.

According to British legend ( see: Historia Brittonum ) the territory known later as Essex was ceded by the Britons to the Saxons following the infamous Brad y Cyllyll Hirion event which occurred ca.

According to a well-known legend, Hengist and Horsa, two brothers, landed in 449 as mercenaries for a British king, Vortigern.

According to a Jewish legend, one of the Essenes, named Menachem, had passed at least some of his mystical knowledge to the Talmudic mystic Nehunya ben HaKanah, to whom the Kabbalistic tradition attributes Sefer HaBahir and, by some opinions, Sefer HaKanah, Sefer HaPeliah and Sefer HaTemunah.

According to the legendary account in the Kojiki, Emperor Jimmu would have been born on 13 February 711 BC ( the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar ), and died, again according to legend, on 11 March 585 BC ( both dates according to the lunisolar traditional Japanese calendar ).

According to legend, he was the first Japanese emperor to drink tea.

According to one version of the legend, Chūai's son was born three years after the death of Chūai, which lends further support to the notion that the stories surrounding him are based on myth rather than actual events.

According to legend, Dolley Madison was referred to as " First Lady " in 1849 at her funeral in a eulogy delivered by President Zachary Taylor.

According to the Polish Kabbalist, " the legend was known to several persons, thus allowing us to speculate that the legend had indeed circulated for some time before it was committed to writing and, consequently, we may assume that its origins are to be traced to the generation immediately following the death of R. Eliyahu, if not earlier.

According to the New American Bible, the image in Revelation 12: 1-6 of a pregnant woman in the sky, threatened by a dragon, " corresponds to a widespread myth throughout the ancient world that a goddess pregnant with a savior was pursued by a horrible monster ; by miraculous intervention, she bore a son who then killed the monster ".

According to Dumezil the forerunner of all frame gods is an Indian epic hero who was the image ( avatar ) of the Vedic god Dyaus.

According to Alan Reid's account, Erwin had no concerns about policy — his anxiety was entirely focussed on Holt's leadership style, his parliamentary performance and his public image.

According to some authorities, it was in Alaeddin's time, and by his advice, that the Ottomans ceased acting like vassals to the Seljuk ruler: they no longer stamped money with his image or used his name in public prayers.

According to the museum's records, the Rosetta Stone is its most-visited single object and a simple image of it has been the museum's best selling postcard for several decades.

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 Wyman: " Our reputation and image as the Bad Boys came later, completely accidentally.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the name " Veronica " comes from the Latin vera, meaning " true " or " Truthful ", and the Greek eikon, meaning " image "; the Veil of Veronica was therefore largely regarded in medieval times as the " true image ", the truthful representation of Jesus, preceding the Shroud of Turin.

According to Genesis, Seth was born when Adam was 130 years old " a son in his likeness and image.

According to Diodorus Siculus, " There was in their city a bronze image of Cronus extending its hands, palms up and sloping toward the ground, so that each of the children when placed thereon rolled down and fell into a sort of gaping pit filled with fire ."( Bib.

According to the Global Resource Information Database of the United Nations Environment Programme, it shrank as much as 95 % from about 1963 to 1998, but " the 2007 ( satellite ) image shows significant improvement over previous years.

According to Apollodorus, it was Apollo who sent the two serpents since Laocoon had insulted Apollo by sleeping with his wife in front of the " divine image ".

According to the Historia, at Guinnion, Arthur " carried the image of holy Mary ever virgin on his shoulders ", and put his enemy to flight.

According to the earliest account of the apparition, the Nican Mopohua, which was written in the Nahuatl language around 1556, the Virgin Mary told Juan Bernadino, the uncle of Juan Diego, that the image left on the tilma was to be known by the name " the Perfect Virgin, Holy Mary of Guadalupe.

According to the traditional account, the original image of Our lady of Guadalupe miracle | miraculously appeared on the cloak of Juan Diego, on the hill of Tepeyac near Mexico City on December 12, 1531.

According to Christian tradition, Veronica gave Jesus her veil to wipe his forehead as he was being taken to Golgotha and the image of his face became miraculously impressed upon it.

According to the later folk image, Boone the trailblazer was too unsophisticated for the civilization which followed him and which eventually defrauded him of his land.

" According to scholars, this reuse of such a familiar image of a slave cabin would have resonated with, and been understood by, audiences of the time.

According to the Spartans, however, the image of Artemis was transported by them to Laconia, where the goddess was worshipped as Artemis Orthia.

According to Pseudo-Eratosthenes and Hyginus ' Poetical Astronomy, the constellation Cygnus was the stellar image of the swan Zeus had transformed into in order to seduce Leda or Nemesis.

According to an Irish dinsenchas (" place-lore ") poem in the 12th century Book of Leinster, Crom Cruach's cult image, consisting of a gold figure surrounded by twelve stone figures, stood on Magh Slécht (" the plain of prostration ") in County Cavan, and was propitiated with first-born sacrifice in exchange for good yields of milk and grain.

According to the film's director, Wolfgang Reitherman, Piglet was replaced by Gopher, which was thought to have a more " folksy, all-American, grass-roots image ".

According to some analysts and campaign aides, Davis ' town hall meetings and conversations with voters were softening his image.

According to common legend, the name " Bear " originated from a tavern located along the roadway from Wilmington to Dover, Delaware ( at the intersection now formed by US 40 and State Route 7 ), whose sign was decorated with the image of a large bear.