Among later writers, ambrosia has been so often used with generic meanings of " delightful liquid " that such late writers as Athenaeus, Paulus and Dioscurides employ it as a technical terms in contexts of cookery, medicine, and botany.

" He is also called by later writers " the Handsome.

According to 20th-century scholar Walther Ludwig, the poems were spuriously inserted into an early biography of Plato sometime between 250 BC and 100 BC and adopted by later writers from this source.

Many writers report that a peace treaty, known as the Peace of Callias, was formalized in 450 BC, but some writers believe that the treaty was a myth created later to inflate the stature of Athens.

The defeat of Bayezid became a popular subject for later western writers, composers and painters.

Contrary to the interpretation of the classical writers, the Pannonian Boii attested in later sources are not simply the remnants of those who had fled from Italy, but rather another division of the tribe, which had settled there much earlier.

Pomponius Mela mentions it among the small towns of the district, probably as it was eclipsed by its neighbour Tarraco ( modern Tarragona ), but it may be gathered from later writers that it gradually grew in wealth and consequence, favoured as it was with a beautiful situation and an excellent harbour.

The theme of turning men into a variety of animals was elaborated by later writers, especially in Latin.

The character of Conan has proven durably popular, resulting in Conan stories by later writers such as Poul Anderson, Leonard Carpenter, Lin Carter, L. Sprague de Camp, Roland J.

In an attempt to provide a coherent timeline which fit the numerous adventures of Conan penned by Robert E. Howard and later writers, various " Conan chronologies " have been prepared by many people from the 1930s onward.

The most important of these, Magnalia Christi Americana ( 1702 ), comprises seven distinct books, many of which depict biographical and historical narratives to which later American writers, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, would look in describing the cultural significance of New England for later generations after the American Revolution.

Ignoring Homer, later writers envisaged the labyrinth as an edifice rather than a single dancing path to the center and out again, and gave it numberless winding passages and turns that opened into one another, seeming to have neither beginning nor end.

Pytheas's account was noted later by other writers including Pliny the Elder and Diodorus Siculus.

Unlike later writers, Homeric lines more commonly employ the feminine caesura ; an example occurs in Iliad I. 5 “... and every bird ; thus the plan of Zeus came to fulfillment ”:

Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at this time that many of the principles of Latin hexameter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal.

Not all Medieval writers are so at odds with the Virgilian standard, and with the rediscovery of classical literature later Medieval and Renaissance writers are far more orthodox, but by then the form had become an academic exercise.

Despite a booming growth in American periodicals around this time period, fueled in part by new technology, many did not last beyond a few issues and publishers often refused to pay their writers or paid them much later than they promised.

This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance.

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

When such a reference is found, an actual address is assigned and the availability table is changed so that the assigned index word or switch is no longer available for later assignment.

This word was first applied to the imported hot-blooded cattle, but later was more commonly used as reference to a human tenderfoot.

Following the tradition of these Ancient Greek folk etymologies, in the Doric dialect the word originally meant wall, fence from animals and later assembly within the agora.

In later Pahlavi papyri, up to half of the remaining graphic distinctions of these twelve letters were lost, and the script could no longer be read as a sequence of letters at all, but instead each word had to be learned as a whole — that is, they had become logograms as in Egyptian Demotic.

In the later novels Christie often uses the word mountebank when Poirot is being assessed by other characters, showing that he has successfully passed himself off as a charlatan or fraud.

For the country there is the term Usono, cognate with the English word Usonia later popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright.

AbiWord had grammar checking before any other open source word processor, although a grammar checker was later added to OpenOffice. org.

The word autumn comes from the Old French word autompne ( automne in modern French ), and was later normalised to the original Latin word autumnus.

" In the later Middle English spelling balle the word coincided graphically with the French balle " ball " and " bale " which has hence been erroneously assumed to be its source.

It is unclear whether the word dates back to the 5th century and was used by the kings themselves, or whether it is a later, 9th-century, invention.

A flag was later erected near the spot the ball cleared the back wall, with simply the word " HERE " upon it.

Kenneth Jackson concludes, based on later development of Welsh and Irish, that it derives from the Proto-Celtic feminine adjective * boudīka, " victorious ", derived from the Celtic word * bouda, " victory " ( cf.

As Adalvard was back in Bremen already by 1069 and is mentioned as one of Adam's sources of information, it would have been expected that word about Birka's destruction had reached also Adam before he published his work half a decade later.

They later learned that an NKVD agent was hiding in the bushes outside their window and wrote down every word they said to each other.

It has been suggested that the town's name comes from an archaic word in the Cornish " bod " ( meaning a dwelling ; the later word is " bos ") and a contraction of " menegh " ( monks ).

The word is from Anglo-Norman bacheler ( later suffixal change to bachelier ; cf.

This institution, with its name, was later emulated by other powers and is reflected in the modern usage of the word ( see Consul ( representative )).

For example, the word chief ( meaning the leader of any group ) comes from the Middle French chef (" head "), and its modern pronunciation preserves the Middle French consonant sound ; the word chef ( the leader of the cooks ) was borrowed from the same source centuries later, by which time the consonant had changed to a " sh "- sound in French.

Some other American colleges later adopted the word to describe individual fields at their own institutions, but " campus " did not yet describe the whole university property.

At the end of the 1980s, the word " cartoon " was shortened, and the word " toon " came into usage with the live action / animated feature Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ), followed two years later by the TV series Tiny Toon Adventures ( 1990 ).

While Protogeometric vases usually turn up, especially outside Greece proper, together with as many or more examples of local stamp, these `` non-Greek '' patterns had mostly vanished by the later ninth century.

* Japanese school calendar also starts from April 1, although Nyugakushiki ( entry ceremony for schools ) are usually held later, around second week of April.

An independent Athens was a minor power in the Hellenistic age ; it rarely had much in the way of foreign policy ; it generally remained at peace, allied either with the Ptolemaic dynasty, or later, with Rome ; when it went to war, the result ( as in the Lamian, Chremonidean, and Mithridatic War ) was usually disastrous.

The possible existence of a genuine Atlantis was discussed throughout classical antiquity, but it was usually rejected and occasionally parodied by later authors.

Though most of the early Waldorf schools were teacher-founded, the schools today are usually initiated and later supported by an active parent community.

For a genome as large as the human genome, it may take many days of CPU time on large-memory, multiprocessor computers to assemble the fragments, and the resulting assembly will usually contain numerous gaps that have to be filled in later.

The name Ahasuerus is equivalent to Xerxes, both deriving from the Persian Khshayārsha, thus Ahasuerus is usually identified as Xerxes I ( 486-465 BCE ), though Ahasuerus is identified as Artaxerxes in the later Greek version of Esther ( as well as by Josephus, the Jewish commentary Esther Rabbah, the Ethiopic translation and the Christian theologian Bar-Hebraeus who identified him more precisely as Artaxerxes II ).

Sixty years ago most archaeologists believed that brochs, usually regarded as castles, were built by immigrants who had been displaced and pushed northward, first by the intrusions of Belgic tribes into what is now south-east England towards the end of the second century BC and later by the Roman invasion of southern Britain from AD 43 onwards.

In the USA the Carboniferous is usually broken into Mississippian ( earlier ) and Pennsylvanian ( later ) Periods.

But the output of the stenotype is a phonetic code that has to be transcribed later ( usually by the same operator who produced the original output ), rather than arbitrary text.

Carbines were usually less accurate and less powerful than the longer muskets ( and later rifles ) of the infantry, due to a shorter sight plane and lower velocity of bullets fired from the shortened barrel.

These passage graves are usually larger than the Shetland type and are round or have funnel-shaped forecourts, although a few are long cairns-perhaps originally circular but with later tails added.

He uses the Latin " Cogito ergo sum " in the later Principles of Philosophy ( 1644 ), Part 1, article 7: "" At that time, the argument had become popularly known in the English speaking world as " the '' argument ", which is usually shortened to "" when referring to the principle virtually everywhere else.

Superman usually stores his Clark Kent clothing compressed in a secret pouch within his cape, though some stories have shown him leaving his clothes in some covert location ( such as the Daily Planet storeroom ) for later retrieval.

The date given is usually the publication date of the complete proof of a result, which is sometimes several years later than the proof or first announcement of the result, so some of the items appear in the " wrong " order.

An infection that does not and will not produce clinically evident impairment of normal functioning, such as the presence of the normal bacteria and yeasts in the gut, is not considered a disease ; by contrast, an infection that is asymptomatic during its incubation period, but expected to produce symptoms later, is usually considered a disease.

Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between " epigram " and " elegy " is sometimes indistinct ( they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets ); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise.

Comedy could be either slapstick ( usually referred to as " burlesque farce "), or alternatively " polite comedy ", which later came to be referred to as " domestic comedy " or " sophisticated comedy ".

A fugue begins with the exposition and is written according to certain predefined rules ; in later portions the composer has more freedom, though a logical key structure is usually followed.

Foxes cache excess food, burying it for later consumption, usually under leaves, snow, or soil.

The Civil Guards ( later called the White Guards ) were organized by local men of influence, usually conservative academics, industrialists and major landowners and activists and were armed by the Germans.

This scheme was later revised, so that search results now are delivered over User Datagram Protocol ( UDP ) directly to the node that initiated the search, usually an ultrapeer of the node.

Morgenstern's diary is an important and usually reliable source for Gödel's later years, but the implication of the August 1970 diary entry — that Gödel did not believe in God — is not consistent with the other evidence.

Shows these virtues by fainting and crying whenever her delicate sensibilities are challenged, usually starts out with a mysterious past and it is later revealed that she is the daughter of an aristocratic or noble family.