The name Barcelona comes from the ancient Iberian Phoenician Barkeno, attested in an ancient coin inscription in Iberian script as Barkeno in Levantine Iberian script, in Ancient Greek sources as, Barkinṓn ; and in Latin as Barcino, Barcilonum and Barceno.

The best-preserved Latin inscription surviving from the Greek East, the edict survives in many versions, on materials as varied as wood, papyrus, and stone.

Excavations at Praeneste, an Etruscan city which became Roman, turned up about 118 cistae, one of which has been termed " the Praeneste cista " or " the Ficoroni cista " by art analysts, with special reference to the one manufactured by Novios Plutius and given by Dindia Macolnia to her daughter, as the archaic Latin inscription says.

The Latin ethnonym " Germani " seems to be attested in the Fasti Capitolini inscription for the year 222 BCE-de Galleis Insvbribvs et Germ ( aneis )-where it may simply refer to " related " peoples, namely related to the Gauls.

This Latin inscription regarding Tiberius Claudius Balbilus of Rome ( d. c. AD 79 ) mentions the " ALEXANDRINA BYBLIOTHECE " ( line eight ).

– The Latin inscription reads LVDOVICVS ( i. e. " Louis ") DEI GRACIA ( i. e. " by the Grace of God ", where Latin gratia was spelt gracia ) FRANCOR REX ( i. e. " Style of the French Sovereign # Francorum Rex | King of the Franks ", where Francor.

on an antique board which bears a Latin inscription Ita in vita ut in lusu alae pessima jactura arte corrigenda est ( translated in the book as As in life, so in a game of hazard, skill will make something of the worst of throws ).

Marcello Malpighi is buried in the church of the Santi Gregorio e Siro, in Bologna, where nowadays can be seen a marble monument to the scientist with an inscription in Latin remembering-among other things-his " SUMMUM INGENIUM / INTEGERRIMAM VITAM / FORTEM STRENUAMQUE MENTEM / AUDACEM SALUTARIS ARTIS AMOREM " ( great genius, honest life, strong and tough mind, daring love for the medical art ).

Malpighi is buried in the church of the Santi Gregorio e Siro, in Bologna, where nowadays can be seen a marble monument to the scientist with an inscription in Latin remembering-among other things-his " SUMMUM INGENIUM / INTEGERRIMAM VITAM / FORTEM STRENUAMQUE MENTEM / AUDACEM SALUTARIS ARTIS AMOREM " ( great genius, honest life, strong and tough mind, daring love for the medical art ).

The Latin inscription on their tomb, Regno consortes et urna, hic obdormimus Elizabetha et Maria sorores, in spe resurrectionis ( affixed there by James VI of Scotland when he succeeded Elizabeth as King James I of England ) translates to " Consorts in realm and tomb, here we sleep, Elizabeth and Mary, sisters, in hope of resurrection ".

On the southern wall of the sanctuary is the tomb and epitaph he erected for himself and his wives, detailing in a lengthy Latin inscription his ancestry and accomplishments, including his role as peacemaker between the Christian nations of Europe and a curiously altered portion detailing his curbing of heresy.

Pilate's rank while he was governor of Iudaea province appeared in a Latin inscription on the Pilate Stone which called him a prefect, while this Tacitean passage calls him a procurator.

The essential criterion of type identity was met by medieval print artifacts such as the Latin Pruefening Abbey inscription of 1119 that was created by the same technique as the Phaistos disc.

The word " titration " comes from the Latin word titulus, meaning inscription or title.

William's grave is currently marked by a marble slab with a Latin inscription dating from the early 19th century.

All current coins carry a Latin inscription whose full form is, meaning " Elizabeth II, by the grace of God, Queen and Defender of the Faith ".

On the chamfered edge around this design runs a circular Latin inscription in two rings which reads: Rec figura talet ad amorem regum / et principum iras iudicum (" This sign rouses the love of kings and princes, the wrath of judges ").

The crossguard bears the following Latin inscription: Quicumque hec / nomina Deii secum tu / lerit nullum periculum / ei omnino nocebit (" Whoever will carry these names of God with him, no danger will harm him ").

The crossguard bears, above another pattern of vine leaves, an inscription in corrupted Hebrew in Latin script: Con citomon Eeve Sedalai Ebrebel (" Fervent faith incite the names of God: Sedalai and Ebrehel ").

The Latin inscription on the coins read, " ZVEN REX DÆNOR ", which translates as " Sven, king of Danes ".

On the old townhall a Latin inscription is still visible: Montes argentum mihi dant nomenque Tridentum (" Mountains give me silver and the name of Trento "), attributed to Fra ' Bartolomeo da Trento ( died in 1251 ).

Coin of Louis II of Hungary with the inscription in Latin: " Louis by the grace of God King of Hungary, Dalmatia, Croatia "

This comes from the Latin inscription on his tomb, which reads Edwardus Primus Scottorum Malleus hic est, 1308.

In the eyes of those who still cared for such things, it was a reflection on his honor, and it gave further grounds for complaint to his overtaxed subjects, who were already grumbling -- although probably not in Latin -- `` Non est lex sana Quod regi sit mea lana ''.

His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.

I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.

He had learned to dispute devastatingly, both formally and informally in Latin, and according to the rules on any topic, pro or con, drawn from almost any subject, more especially from Aristotle's works.

He also displayed the ability to write Latin verse on almost any topic of dispute, the verses, of course, to be delivered from memory.

But his greatest achievement, in his own eyes and in the eyes of his colleagues and teachers, was his amazing ability to produce literary Latin pieces, and he was often called on to do so.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

But the real beginnings of this development in him go back to the opposing of grammar school, and probably if it had not been this occasion and these Latin lines it would have been some others, such as the first prolusion, that set off this streak in him of unbridled and scathing verbal attack on an enemy.

The contents were highly embarrassing to American spokesmen, who were on hand to promise Latin Americans a 20 billion dollar foreign aid millennium.

This, in more diplomatic language, is what Adlai Stevenson told the newspaper men of Latin America yesterday on behalf of the United States Government.

But the Latin American republics who have been rather inclined to drag their feet on taking action against Castro also reacted swiftly last week by finally throwing Cuba off the Inter-American Defense Board.

Most of them, the world over, operate on the same principle by which justice is administered in France and some other Latin countries: the customer is to be considered guilty of abysmal ignorance until proven otherwise, with the burden of proof on the customer himself.

She eyed the chickens with, if she had known it, something of Glendora's dismal look and thought with a certain fury of the time she had spent on Latin verbs.

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

In Latin texts, on the other hand, Joseph Fontenrose declared himself unable to find any conflation of Apollo with Sol among the Augustan poets of the 1st century, not even in the conjurations of Aeneas and Latinus in Aeneid XII ( 161 – 215 ).

Accordingly the modern study of marine and freshwater algae is called either phycology or algology, depending on whether the Greek or Latin root is used.

In Cyrillic originally the letters were given names based on Slavic words ; this was later abandoned as well in favor of a system similar to that used in Latin.

A novel called Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, based on Avicenna's story, was later written by Ibn Tufail ( Abubacer ) in the 12th century and translated into Latin and English as Philosophus Autodidactus in the 17th and 18th centuries respectively.

Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.

Examples from the nineteenth century are the transposition of " Horatio Nelson " into " Honor est a Nilo " ( Latin = Honor is from the Nile ); and of " Florence Nightingale " into " Flit on, cheering angel ".

Animism ( from Latin anima " soul, life ") is a set of beliefs based on the existence of non-human " spiritual beings " or similar kinds of embodied principles.

As the initial spelling on stones was ' Abrasax ' ( Αβρασαξ ), the spelling of ' Abraxas ' seen today probably originates in the confusion made between the Greek letters Sigma and Xi in the Latin transliteration.

By a probably euphonic inversion the translator of Irenaeus and the other Latin authors have Abraxas, which is found in the magical papyri, and even, though most sparingly, on engraved stones.