He was released with other Christians at the request of Hyacinthus, a eunuch presbyter, who represented Marcia, the favourite mistress of Emperor Commodus.

At the urging of his mistress Marcia, Commodus had Cleander beheaded and his son killed.

The plot was carried out by the Praetorian prefect Quintus Aemilius Laetus, Commodus ' mistress Marcia, and his chamberlain Eclectus.

" He finds the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights to be a rather strange group: Mr. Heathcliff appears a gentleman but his mannerisms suggest otherwise ; the reserved mistress of the house is in her mid-teens ; and a young man appears to be one of the family, although he dresses and talks like a servant.

His catchphrase is " Vote Quimby ", which he always finds an opportunity to say, even in situations where it would be disadvantageous to identify himself, like inadvertently being caught by Homer in a motel room with his mistress.

Merivel finds himself enjoying a life of pleasure and popularity at court, until the King informs him that he has arranged for Merivel to wed Celia ( Polly Walker ), the King's favorite mistress.

" Though he finds release with his Burmese mistress, Flory is emotionally dissatisfied.

Largo also has little consideration even for those closest to him, going as far as to torture his own mistress, Domino, when he finds out she is betraying him.

Too dumb to defend his mistress in times of danger unless verbally alerted, and has a tendency to gobble up everything he finds edible, including Nodwick.

Barbara leaves the house, but comes back as soon as she finds out from the newspaper about Sam's mistress ; she realizes he wanted her dead.

Paul Cattleman, history grad student, moves to L. A. to work for the military-industrial complex and finds that neither the company nor his beatnik mistress has a sense of history ; he returns to Harvard.

Bradford, the pragmatist, clashes with Milford, the idealist ; Bradford's wife is Milford's ex-girlfriend, who finds she still has feelings for Milford upon his release from the prison camp ; Denisov appoints Milford's ex-wife, a powerful magistrate ( and General Samanov's mistress ), to serve as Bradford's deputy and assistant in Heartland ; and Kimberly's renewed sense of American pride ultimately affects her relationship with Denisov.

Instead of meeting his wife at the train station as planned, however, Stroud finds himself preoccupied with the attention being shown him by Janoth's glamorous mistress, Pauline York ( Rita Johnson ), who proposes a blackmail plan against Janoth.

The General also has a mistress, Sergeant Stanhope ( played by blonde bombshell Diana Dors ), but Ernie finds out too late that she is a " plant "-a German agent.

So the Epidamnus twin finds the doors of both his wife and mistress slammed in his puzzled face, and goes off to get the counsel of his friends.

Or was it her own first ball as mistress of this big house, a Van Rensselaer bride from way upstate near Albany, from Rensselaerwyck.

God's judgement on Ninevah is " all because of the wanton lust of a harlot, alluring, the mistress of sorceries, who enslaved nations by her prostitution and peoples by her witchcraft.

Upon learning of his mistress ' arrest, Pasternak telephoned Liuisa Popova and asked her to come at once to Gogol Boulevard.

Clara Petacci ( born Claretta Petacci ; 28 February 1912 – 28 April 1945 ) was the mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, who was twenty-eight years her senior.

* Maxie, a dachshund owned by actress Marie Prevost, tried to awaken his dead mistress, who was found with small bites on her legs.

" He Prophet Muhammad said: " That the slave-girl gives birth to her mistress and master, and that you would find barefooted, destitute shepherds of goats vying with one another in the construction of magnificent buildings.

Eurystheus did come out, but the moment Heracles let the hind go, she sprinted back to her mistress, and Heracles departed, saying that Eurystheus had not been quick enough.

Rhett declares he is not a marrying man and propositions Scarlett to be his mistress, but marries her after the death of Frank Kennedy, explaining that he won't take a chance on losing her to someone else, since it is unlikely she will ever need money again after Frank's death.

A year after her marriage to Isabella's brother, Alfonso in 1502, the notorious Lucrezia Borgia became the mistress of Francesco.

It was while she was being entertained by Louis, whose troops occupied Milan, that she offered asylum to Milanese refugees including Cecilia Gallerani, the refined mistress of her sister Beatrice's husband, Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, who had been forced to leave his duchy in the wake of French occupation.

There are several references to a relationship with a famous Viennese opera singer, and Bunter-who evidently was involved with this, as with other parts of his master's life-recalls Wimsey being very angry with a French mistress who mistreated her own servant.

Beria's bodyguards reported that their orders included handing each girl a flower bouquet as she left Beria's house, with the implication being that to accept his parting gift made her his consensual mistress ; those who refused risked being arrested.

On 9 December 1869, Sacher-Masoch and his mistress Baroness Fanny Pistor signed a contract making him her slave for a period of six months, with the stipulation that the Baroness wear furs as often as possible, especially when she was in a cruel mood.

Sanger, collaborating with anarchist friends, coined the term " birth control " as a more candid alternative to euphemisms such as " family limitation " and proclaimed that each woman should be " the absolute mistress of her own body.

When he returned to Munich, following Eisner's assassination by an anti-semitic nationalist, Count Arco-Valley, he informed Gasparri-using Schioppa's eye-witness testimony of the chaotic scene at the former royal palace as the trio of Max Levien, Eugen Levine, and Towia Axelrod sought power: " the scene was indescribable the confusion totally chaotic in the midst of all this, a gang of young women, of dubious appearance, Jews like the rest of them hanging around the boss of this female rabble was Levien's mistress, a young Russian woman, a Jew and a divorcée and it was to her that the nunciature was obliged to pay homage in order to proceed Levien is a young man, also Russian and a Jew.

This tradition comes from her conflation with the very old chthonic divinity Despoina ( the mistress ), whose real name could not be revealed to anyone except those initiated to her mysteries.

This " pornocracy " was an age with women in power: Theodora, whom Liutprand characterized as a " shameless whore ... exercised power on the Roman citizenry like a man " and her daughter Marozia, the mother of Pope John XI and reputed to be the mistress of Sergius III, largely upon a remark by Liutprand.

In other aspects, Pasiphaë, like her niece Medea, was a mistress of magical herbal arts in the Greek imagination.

His family life was not so happy ; his beloved wife Maria Alexandrovna had serious problems with her lungs, which led to her death and to the dissolution of the close-knit family due to his quick morganatic marriage to his longtime mistress, Princess Catherine Dolgoruki.

The narrative goes on to say that Simon, having fallen in love with Helen, took her about with him, saying that she had come down into the world from the highest heavens, and was his mistress, inasmuch as she was Sophia, the Mother of All.

He did not take her as his mistress, as was the prevailing custom with priests for whom celibacy was too rigorous.

' I am she that is the natural mother of all things, mistress and governess of all the elements, the initial progeny of worlds, chief of powers divine, Queen of heaven, the principal of the Gods celestial, the light of the goddesses: at my will the planets of the air, the wholesome winds of the Seas, and the silences of hell be disposed ; my name, my divinity is adored throughout all the world in divers manners, in variable customs and in many names, [...] Some call me Juno, others Bellona of the Battles, and still others Hecate.

The word labyrinthos ( Mycenaean daburinthos < ref > da-pu < sub > 2 </ sub >- ri-to-yo po-ti-ni-ja ( KN Gg 702 ), daburinthoyo potnia meaning " mistress or lady of the Labyrinth ".</ ref >) may possibly show the same equivocation between initial d-and l-as is found in the variation of the early Hittite royal name Tabarna / Labarna ( where written t-may represent phonetic d -).

Her common name as a vegetation goddess is Kore and in Arcadia she was worshipped under the title Despoina " the mistress ", a very old chthonic divinity.

Marquise de Pompadour ( mistress of King Louis XV ), whose name became synonymous with Rococo art, was a great fan of Boucher's, and had the painter under her protection: it is particularly in his portraits of her that this style is clearly exemplified.

Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld ( 17 February 1818 – 17 January 1861 ), better known by the stage name Lola Montez, was an Irish dancer and actress who became famous as a " Spanish dancer ", courtesan and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made her Countess of Landsfeld.

It has been connected with Latin aes, aeris ' copper, bronze, money, wealth ', era ' mistress ' and the name of the Greek goddess Hera.

She was, almost without fail, depicted as crowned by the hieroglyphics signifying her name, which were a combination of signs for the sacred temple enclosure ( hwt ), along with the sign for neb, or mistress ( Lady ), on top of the enclosure sign.

Her name means mistress of the offering.

Atargatis () or Ataratheh (; ) was a Syrian deity, the chief goddess of northern Syria ( Michael Rostovtzeff called her " the great mistress of the North Syrian lands "), commonly known to the ancient Greeks by a the name Aphrodite Derceto () and to the Romans as Dea Syriae (" Goddess of Syria "), occasionally rendered in one word Deasura.

Haakon had two illegitimate children with his mistress Kanga the Young ( who is only known by name ) before 1225.

The Ultramontanes regime ended due to their demands against the naturalization of Ludwig I's Irish-born mistress Eliza Gilbert ( better known by her stage name Lola Montez ).

He also had a son, John Marshall, by his longtime friend and mistress, Renée ( née Gilbert ) whose later married name was Taylor.

Other sonnets express the speaker's love for a young man ; brood upon loneliness, death, and the transience of life ; seem to criticise the young man for preferring a rival poet ; express ambiguous feelings for the speaker's mistress ; and pun on the poet's name.

* Tuonetar, name referring to both the mistress and the daughter of Tuoni.

We hear this name when d ' Artagnan stumbles upon him and his mistress in the second book ( in the chapter: Les Deux Gaspard ), and again when Bazin is talking about Aramis in the third.

Her real name is Aldonza Lorenzo, and Sancho describes her as follows: "… I can tell you that she pitches a bar as well as the strongest lad in the whole village … She's a brawny girl, well built and tall and sturdy, and she will know how to keep her chin out of the mud with any knight errant who ever has her for his mistress.

Based on the novella of the same name by David Garnett, the piece focuses on the romantic entanglements of actress Rose Vibert, her admiring fan Alex Dillingham, his underage cousin Jenny, his uncle George, and George's mistress, sculptress Giulietta Trapani, over a period of 17 years.

In Paris, Athos visits Madame de Chevreuse, the former mistress of Aramis, with whom, under the name Marie Michon, Aramis had much communication in The Three Musketeers.

In 1376 Peter de la Mare, speaker of the House of Commons was confined in Nottingham Castle for having ' taken unwarrantable liberties with the name of Alice Perrers, mistress of the king '.

Mitsunari had three sons ( Shigeie, Shigenari and Sakichi ) and three daughters ( only the younger girl's name is known, Tatsuko ) with his wife, and another child from a mistress.

In 1792 Talbot ended up as a mistress of captain Essex Bowen who enlisted her as his footboy under the name " John Taylor " for a voyage to Santo Domingo.

Although remaining untitled, the girl was accepted into the nobility, and eventually became mistress of the Queen Mother's Household ( Hovmästarinna ) as well as her grandmother's companion under the name " Elisabeth Gyllenhielm ", that surname having become traditional for children of Vasa kings and princes born outside of dynastic marriage.

" Ahmose is her name, the beneficent, mistress of, She is the wife of the king Aakheperkare ( Thutmose I ), given life forever " ( from Breasted's Ancient Records ).