The Latin elegy of ancient Roman literature was most often erotic or mythological in nature.

An elegy written by him in Latin on the death of a friend attracted the attention of Count von Brühl, the prime minister, who expressed a desire to see the author.

The chief source of his biography is his own poetry, especially the Latin elegy addressed to Jean de Morel, " Elegia ad Janum Morellum Ebredunensem, Pytadem suum ," printed with a volume of Xenia ( Paris, 1569 ).

* Sulpicius Lupercus Servastus, a Latin poet, of whom nothing is known except his elegy, De Cupiditate, and a Sapphic ode, De Vetustate.

It also has a pastoral setting and is in the tradition of Theocritus ' amatory idylls and Latin love elegy.

Several charters written by him are preserved, and it appears as well that he is responsible for several lines of a Latin elegy, jointly composed with a Frenchman named Herbert, who is otherwise unknown.

Its rise in popularity occurred in the late 1980s at the same time as Rock en Español and Latin Pop reached continental-wide audiences.

He wrote it in French, not in Latin and thereby reached a wider audience in his country than that of scholars.

Overall inflation for 1990 had reached 36. 4 percent — not the hyperinflation experienced by some Latin American counties — but still the highest annual rate for Honduras in forty years.

Inflation in 2006 was the lowest in Latin America at only 1. 8 %, but increased in 2007 as oil and commodity prices rose ; in the first half of 2008, it had reached about 5. 5 %.

It is possible that the Latin word was loaned into Old English, and only from Old English reached other Germanic languages via the Anglo-Saxon mission to the continent, giving Old Icelandic prestr, Old Swedish präster, Old High German priast.

He thus broke the tenuous union which had been reached between the Greek and the Latin Churches at the Second Council of Lyons in 1274 and further compromise was rendered impossible.

For example, in Spanish the fronting of Vulgar Latin before e ɛ seems to have reached every possible word it could, but the change involving voicing of word-initial Latin to as in colaphus > golpe and cattus > gato did not, e. g. canna > caña.

Sino-Venezuelan trade was less than $ 500m per year before 1999, and reached $ 7. 5bn in 2009, making China Venezuela's second-largest trade partner, and Venezuela China's biggest investment destination in Latin America.

Meanwhile, her duet with the Barrio Boyzz, " Donde Quiera Que Estés ", reached number one in the Billboard Latin Charts.

Women were forbidden to join with men during the time of prayer ; fasting on Sunday was condemned ; no one was to retreat at home or in the mountains during Lent ; the Eucharist was to be taken in church and not brought home ; excommunicated persons were not to be sheltered by bishops ; a cleric was forbidden to become a monk on the motivation of a more perfect life ; no one was to assume the title " doctor " ( Latin for teacher ); women were not to be accounted " virgins " until they had reached the age of forty.

Both singles reached number one on the Hot Latin Songs.

" Almas del Silencio debuted at number twelve on the Billboard 200 and reached number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums where it stayed for six weeks.

The next singles, " Jaleo " and " Y Todo Queda en Nada ", reached number one on the Hot Latin Songs.

The first single, " Tu Recuerdo " which featured La Mari of Chambao, reached number one for three weeks on the Hot Latin Songs.

It reached the top of Billboard charts in Latin America and the Philippines.

Year after year, he reached the top of the charts all over America, Latin America and in Spain, leaving us classics like Algo de mí ( Something of me ) ( 1972 ), Amor ... Amar ( Love .. to love ) ( 1972 ), Melina ( 1975 ), a song about Melina Mercouri, ¿ Quieres ser mi amante?

< http :// www. jstor. org / stable / 335812 >.</ ref > Between 1940 and 1950, magical realism in Latin America reached its peak, with prominent writers appearing mainly in Argentina .< ref > Flores, Angel.

Although the term " dîme " comes from the Latin decima (" one tenth ", with the same origin as that of the U. S. coin, the dime ), the " dîme " rarely reached this percentage and ( on the whole ) it was closer to 1 / 13th of the agricultural production.

Abelardo Díaz Alfaro ( July 24, 1919-July 22, 1999 ) was a Puerto Rican author who reached great fame throughout Latin America during the 1940s.

Knowledge of negative numbers eventually reached Europe through Latin translations of Arabic and Indian works.

Four singles from the album were released ; two of which reached # 1 on the Top Latin Songs.

Microcredit reached Latin America with the establishment of PRODEM in Bolivia in 1986 ; a bank that later transformed into the for-profit BancoSol.

" Nieva, Nieva " was released as the first single which reached # 27 on the Hot Latin Tracks and became Paulina's first # 1 single in Mexico.

and concentrate its constructive efforts on eliminating in other parts of Latin America the social conditions on which totalitarian nationalism feeds ''.

The Riegger, with its Latin hesitation bounce, is just this side of the pale ; ;

The historic roots of Algerian literature goes back to the Numidian era, when Apuleius wrote The Golden Ass, the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety.

Readers unacquainted with its reputation as a satirical work often do not immediately realize that Swift was not seriously proposing cannibalism and infanticide, nor would readers unfamiliar with the satires of Horace and Juvenal recognize that Swift's essay follows the rules and structure of Latin satires.

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

Its name is Latin for " water-carrier " or " cup-carrier ", and its symbol is 20px (), a representation of water.

The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperire, " to open ," in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to " open ," which is supported by comparison with the modern Greek use of ἁνοιξις ( anoixis ) ( opening ) for spring.

* 1982 – Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spreads to all of Latin America and the Third World.

Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent came to be termed " America ", probably deriving its name from the feminized Latin version of Vespucci's first name .< ref > Rival explanations have been proposed ( see Arciniegas, Germán.

Under the Latin Duchy of Athens, the Acropolis functioned as the city's administrative center, with the Parthenon as its cathedral, and the Propylaia as part of the Ducal Palace.

Assyria was also sometimes known as Subartu, and after its fall, from 605 BC through to the late seventh century AD variously as Athura, Syria ( Greek ), Assyria ( Latin ) and Assuristan.

Since 1972, the Roman Catholic Church uses the name " Anointing of the Sick " both in the English translations issued by the Holy See of its official documents in Latin and in the English official documents of Episcopal conferences.

Set primarily in the New York City subway system its score features an eclectic mix of musical genres ( including jazz, hip hop, Latin, rock, and country ).

The word " Accountant " is derived from the French word, which took its origin from the Latin word.

The city dates back at least to the 10th century when it was known by its first Latin name of Alavarium, literally, " a gathering place or preserve of birds.

The Third Army was also important because of its shared border with Argentina ( Brazil's traditional rival in Latin America ) and Uruguay.

It has given high priority to expanding relations with its South American neighbors and strengthening regional bodies such as the Latin American Integration Association ( ALADI ), the Union of South American Nations ( UNASUR ) and Mercosur.

Brazil regularly extends export credits and university scholarships to its Latin American neighbors.

Bede's Latin has been praised for its clarity, but his style in the Historia Ecclesiastica is not simple.

A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek letter, followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name.

Barcino Nova is the town's Latin name meaning " new Barcelona "; Barcino was the Roman name for Barcelona in Spain from its foundation by Emperor Augustus in 10 BC, and it was only changed to Barcelona in the Middle Ages.

In 1099, Crusaders captured and fortified Bethlehem and replaced its Greek Orthodox clergy with a Latin one.

The Boii ( Latin plural, singular Boius ; Greek ) were one of the most prominent ancient Celtic tribes of the later Iron Age, attested at various times in Cisalpine Gaul ( northern Italy ), Pannonia ( Hungary and its western neighbours ), in and around Bohemia, and Transalpine Gaul.

The Basel region, culturally extending into German Baden-Württemberg and French Alsace, reflects the heritage of its three states in the modern Latin name: " Regio TriRhena ".

It was thus no mere translation from the Latin: its Protestant character is made clear by the drastic reduction of the place of saints, compressing what had been the major part into three petitions.