At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Laenas and Imperiosus ( or, less frequently, year 395 Ab urbe condita ).

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rutilus and Imperiosus ( or, less frequently, year 397 Ab urbe condita ).

The Torquati were descended from the Capitolini, and obtained their surname from Titus Manlius Imperiosus, who defeated a giant Gaul during a battle in 361 BC, and took his torque as a trophy, placing it around his own neck.

Manlius L. f. Capitolinus Imperiosus, the Tarquinians invaded the Roman territories on the Etruscan border ( Livy VII, 12 ).

* The Roman consul Titus Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus defeats the Latins in the Battle of Trifanum.

* Lucius Manlius A. f. A. n. Capitolinus Imperiosus, dictator in 363 BC.

* Gnaeus Manlius L. f. A. n. Capitolinus Imperiosus, consul in 359 and 357 BC.

* Titus Manlius L. f. A. n. Imperiosus Torquatus, dictator in 353, 349, and 320 ; consul in 347, 344, and 340 BC.

He was given the name Gaius Octavius Thurinus, his cognomen possibly commemorating his father's victory at Thurii over a rebellious band of slaves.

Because of his bellicose nature Albert received the cognomen Alcibiades after his death ; during his lifetime Albert was known as Bellator ( the Warlike ).

Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.

He became a renowned pirate, his cognomen derived from his thick black beard and fearsome appearance ; he was reported to have tied lit fuses under his hat to frighten his enemies.

In order to do so, he dropped the cognomen " Nero " which he had adopted as paterfamilias of the Claudii Nerones when his brother Germanicus was adopted out.

The name derived from Julius Caesar's cognomen " Caesar ": this cognomen was adopted by all Roman emperors, exclusively by the ruling monarch after the Julio-Claudian dynasty had died out.

However, there is debate as to whether the cognomen Barca ( meaning " thunderbolt ") was applied to Hamilcar alone or was hereditary within his family.

The cognomen " Caesar " originated, according to Pliny the Elder, with an ancestor who was born by caesarean section ( from the Latin verb to cut, caedere, caes -).

Tacitus refers to him as " Cilnius Maecenas "; it is possible that " Cilnius " was his mother's nomen-or that Maecenas was in fact a cognomen.

Vitellius was the first to add the honorific cognomen Germanicus to his name instead of Caesar upon his accession ; the latter name had fallen into disrepute in many quarters because of the actions of Nero.

In addition the Dives cognomen of the Crassi Divites means rich or wealthy, and since Marcus Crassus the subject here was renowned for his enormous wealth this has contributed to hasty assumptions that his family belonged to the Divites.

But no ancient source accords him or his father the Dives cognomen, while we are explicitly informed that his great wealth was acquired rather than inherited, and that he was raised in modest circumstances.

Cinna was a cognomen that distinguished a patrician branch of the gens Cornelia, particularly in the late Roman Republic.

His cognomen, " The Peaceable ", was not necessarily a comment on the deeds of his life, for he was a strong leader, shown by his seizure of the Northumbrian and Mercian kingdoms from his older brother, Eadwig, in 958.

Sometimes a second or third cognomen, called agnomen, was added.

Later in the Republic a cognomen was added to distinguish families within a gens, as the importance of the gens grew and the size of voting tribes required this differentiation.

It was therefore necessary to use other names ( cognomen and later, agnomen ) to distinguish between individuals.

Often the cognomen was chosen based on some physical or personality trait, sometimes with ironic results: Julius Caesar's cognomen, in one interpretation, meant hairy ( cf.

Until 1800, Abensberg was a municipality belonging to the Straubing district of the Electorate of Bavaria.

It is improbable, however, that the production of amber was limited to a single species ; and indeed a large number of conifers belonging to different genera are represented in the amber-flora.

The form Agade appears in Sumerian, for example in the Sumerian King List ; the later Assyro-Babylonian form Akkadû (" of or belonging to Akkad ") was likely derived from this.

A rare discovery of metal plates belonging to wooden doors was made at Balawat ( Imgur-Enlil ).

In Ancient Greek, there was no ablative case ; its functions were taken by the genitive, so that the genitive had functions belonging to the Proto-Indo-European genitive and ablative cases.

Achduart was part of the Estate of Coigach, Lochbroom, belonging to the Countess of Cromartie.

Bornholm was one of the three last Danish municipalities not belonging to a county — the others being Copenhagen and Frederiksberg.

The British Museum was the first of a new kind of museum – national, belonging to neither church nor king, freely open to the public and aiming to collect everything.

* Tasha, a female borzoi belonging to the noted vet Buster Lloyd-Jones ( founder of Denes natural pet foods ), was born in the UK during the Second World War and is the pedigree ancestor of most British borzoi bloodlines.

The Roman Catholic Abbey of St Mary and St Petroc, formerly belonging to the Canons Regular of the Lateran was built in 1965 next to the already existing seminary.

An accomplished amateur magician himself, he hosted several TV specials in the mid-1970s which featured other amateur magicians, and was a respected member of the Hollywood magic community, belonging to The Magic Castle, an exclusive club for magicians.

In Greek, the adjective kyriak-ós /- ē /- ón means " belonging, or pertaining, to a Kýrios " (" Lord "), and the usage was adopted by early Christians of the Eastern Mediterranean with regard to anything pertaining to the Lord Jesus Christ: hence " Kyriakós oíkos " (" house of the Lord ", church ), " Kyriakē " (" day of the Lord ", i. e. Sunday ), or " Kyriakē proseukhē " ( the " Lord's prayer ").

Chiang Kai-shek considered both the Han Chinese and all the minority peoples of China, the Five Races Under One Union, as descendants of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor and semi mythical founder of the Chinese nation, and belonging to the Chinese Nation Zhonghua Minzu and he introduced this into Kuomintang ideology, which was propagated into the educational system of the Republic of China.

In Old Testament times, a wife was regarded as chattel, belonging to her husband.

The US requested an unpopulated island belonging to the UK to avoid political difficulties with newly-independent countries, and ultimately the UK and US agreed that Diego Garcia was a suitable location.

A hair identified as belonging to a black male was later recovered from a sheet which was used to wrap one of the victims.

These former speakers of Sirenik Eskimo language inhabited settlements Sireniki, Imtuk was already a settlement with mixed population, Sirenik Eskimos and Ungazigmit ( the latter belonging to Siberian Yupik ).

This process was a recognition of the presence of one god " in " another when the second god took on a role belonging to the first.

The first, the ' little tin idol ', was used from the inception of the Cup in 1871 – 72 until it was stolen from a Birmingham shoe shop window belonging to William Shillcock while held by Aston Villa on 11 September 1895, and was never seen again.

Henry IV restored the charter granted to Gibraltar in 1310 and took two additional measures: the lands previously belonging to Algeciras ( destroyed in 1369 ) were granted to Gibraltar ; and the status of collegiate church was solicited from the pope Pius II and granted to the parish church of Saint Mary the Crowned (), now the Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned, on the site of the old main Moorish Mosque.

On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, the town was razed to the ground by German aircraft belonging to the Condor Legion, sent by Hitler to support Franco's troops.

In 1984, GCHQ was the centre of a political row when the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher prohibited its employees from belonging to a trade union.