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Favonius on the other hand is not known to the Greek but is of particular relevance to the Roman as it started to blow exactly on the sixth day before the Idi of February: it was regarded as the bringer of the Springtime renewal of life.
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Favonius and on
* A Poet ( believed to be based on Marcus Favonius )
Falco was born on 20 or 21 March 41 AD to Marcus Didius Favonius and Junilla Tacita.
Favonius and is
W. Warde Fowler suggested that Faunus is identical with Favonius, one of the Roman wind gods ( compare the Anemoi ).
* Marcus Favonius Facilis, a centurion of Legion XX who died in Britain ( probably at Camulodunum ) and whose tombstone is displayed in Colchester museum.
Favonius and known
Cato's high moral standards and incorruptible virtue gained him several followers – of whom Marcus Favonius was the most well known – as well as praise even from his political enemies, such as Sallust ( one of our sources for the anecdote about Caesar and Cato's sister ).
Favonius and Greek
* Favonius, one of the Roman wind gods, who held dominion over plants and flowers and was generally equated with the Greek god Zephyrus.
Favonius and Roman
Favonius was a Roman nomen, meaning " favorable ".
* Marcus Favonius, a politician during the fall of the Roman Republic.
From Latin ( ventus ) favonius, a mild west wind of which Favonius was the Roman personification.
* Marcus Favonius ( c. 90 BC – 42 BC ), Roman politician
Favonius and was
* Favonius Eulogius, a Carthaginian rhetor who was contemporary with Augustine of Hippo and wrote Disputatio de somnio Scipionis.
Flora was married to Favonius, the wind god, and her companion was Hercules.
Marcus Favonius, the imitator of Cato the Younger, was born in Terracina, as was the emperor Galba ( in 3 BCE ); both Galba and Domitian possessed villas in the area of the city.
Favonius and .
The most notable victim, Marcus Tullius Cicero, who had opposed Caesar and excoriated Antony in his Philippics, came as no surprise ; nor did the proscription of Marcus Favonius, a follower of Cato and a constant opponent of both triumvirates ; but the proscription of Caesar's legate Quintus Tullius Cicero ( Marcus Tullius Cicero's younger brother ) seems to be motivated by pure spite.
* Favonius ( butterfly ), a genus of butterflies.
* Favonius ( horse ), winner of the 1871 Epsom Derby.
Most were not so lucky ; amongst the most prominent men to suffer death were the orator Cicero, his younger brother Quintus Tullius Cicero ( one of Julius Caesar's legates ) and Marcus Favonius.
In 1871, his horses won four of the five " classic " races: Favonius won the Epsom Derby and " Hannah " won the Epsom Oaks, the 1, 000 Guineas and the St. Leger Stakes.
At the end of 1999, Pieper founded Insight Capital Partners Europe, a private investment fund for IT-businesses, later operating under the name of Favonius Ventures, particularly in the field of e-commerce.
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The hall, on the other hand, appeared lifeless and deserted on these long waterfront afternoons.
But if they really hoped to succeed they needed professionals, men who knew how to use a gun against men, who would match the killers on the other side.
They were headed straight for each other on a collision course.
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
Two uniformed officers, a couple of plain-clothesmen I knew, and two other men stood on a gray cement area next to the pool on my left.
They discussed the way people never tell each other the things on their minds.
Thirty minutes later, the outrigger grated on sand and other girls, waiting on shore, rushed forward to pull it up on the beach and make it fast with vine ropes to a large boulder.
`` If you want to see something, he's back on the other side by the trunk of the car ''.
The Brahmaputra has its headwaters in the tableland of the world, the towering white headwalls of the Himalayas that are unknown to man as any other space on the planet.
He bounced exuberantly on the sagging bed and was even more delighted when Madame Lalaurie -- after closing the door -- showed the slave that the bed was designed for something other than slumber.
The lives so many of them gave, to forestall what they believed would be a fatal encroachment by the Union on the powers reserved to their states have continued ever since to safeguard all Americans against freedom's other foe.
Otherwise, we go on endlessly trying to draw the line, color and other, as to which kind of man we wish to see dominate.
Research, on the other hand, has shown many stepmothers to be eminently successful, some far better than the real mothers.
But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.
Mother and son recognize each other and, in Mann's version of this legend, make a remarkable confession of guilt to each other, the confession of unconscious motive and unconscious knowledge of their true identities from the time they had first set eyes on each other.
A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.
As a consequence of the tensions thus produced in his thoughts and feelings, he wrote on the one hand sketches of idealized hunting trips and on the other an anecdote of the village of Hardscrabble, Arkansas, where no one had ever seen a piano ; ;
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He had taken a carbine down from the wall and it trailed from his hand, the stock bumping on the wood floor.
He approached the horse and laid a hand on the stallion's quivering neck.
Now, Mis-ter McBride '', said Lord, and he laid a firmly restraining hand on the field boss's arm.
Hogan reappeared, stopped on the hotel porch, lifted a hand in signal.
No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.
He came to the edge of the veranda, peered down at them with his hand on his gun.
Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.
Less assured than the tall, wide-shouldered man in the lead, Cobb followed alertly, a hand on his gun butt.
Greg slapped his hand across the switches that turned on the guns and gun camera and gun sight.
But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.
The marine spun, clapping a hand high on his chest, and dived forward.
Awkwardly with one hand Matsuo got the cap back on the water bottle.
First he barely touched the blade on the hand which shaded the eyes.
He didn't stop till he was within three feet of Blue Throat and by that time the gang leader's right hand was on the butt of his revolver.
While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.
When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.
Despite this danger, however, we are informed on every hand that ideas, not machines, are our finest tools ; ;
No Jew was on hand to boycott his financially struggling theater.
Alone, rejected on every hand, divorced, and in financial trouble, he leaped from an eleventh-floor window of the Abbey Hotel in 1937.
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