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The archaic name of Poplios Valesios is rendered in Classical Latin as " Publius Valerius ," which has inevitably led to speculation that the inscription refers to none other than the famous Publius Valerius Publicola, the patrician ally of Lucius Junius Brutus who dominates the list of early consuls recorded by the Fasti Capitolini and is credited in traditional accounts as one of the primary founders of the Roman Republic.
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It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.
The archaic ( Homeric ) pronunciation of the name was approximately.
72 accounts for the island's archaic name Ortygia by asserting that Zeus transformed Leto into a quail ( ortux ) in order to prevent Hera from finding out his infidelity, and Kenneth McLeish suggested further that in quail form Leto would have given birth with as few birth-pains as a mother quail suffers when it lays an egg.
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 ).
* Consumption ( disease ), an archaic name for pulmonary tuberculosis
The name Delphoi comes from the same root as δελφύς delphys, " womb " and may indicate archaic veneration of Gaia, Grandmother Earth, and the Earth Goddess at the site.
where she is referred to with the archaic Latin name of deva Cornisca and where existed a collegium of worshippers.
The town's name ( with the archaic spelling ) continues to form part of the title to The Royal Irish Regiment ( 27th ( Inniskilling ) 83rd and 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment ).
The tack symbol has been reintroduced into modern scholarly representation of archaic Greek writing under the name of Heta.
In the contest of wills between Hera and Zeus over whose candidate would be hero, fated to defeat the remaining creatures representing an old order and bring about the reign of the Twelve Olympians, Eurystheus was Hera's candidate and Heracles — though his name implies that at one archaic stage of myth-making he had carried " Hera's fame " — was the candidate of Zeus.
Marcello Durante links " Homeros " to an epithet of Zeus as " god of the assemblies " and argues that behind the name lies the echo of an archaic word for " reunion ", similar to the later Panegyris, denoting a formal assembly of competing minstrels.
It is disputed, however, whether the " Albanoi " of the events of 1043 refers to Albanians in an ethnic sense or whether " Albanoi " is a reference to Normans from Sicily under an archaic name ( there was also tribe of Italy by the name of " Albanoi ").
An archaic name for both the Skagerrak and Kattegat was the Norwegian Sea or Jutland Sea ( Knýtlinga saga mentions the name Jótlandshaf ).
* County of Lincoln, archaic name for county of Lincolnshire, England
The German population was expelled from between 1945 and 1947 and replaced with Poles and, as the medieval Polish name Lignica was considered archaic, the town was renamed Legnica.
Most accounts agree that she found the barren floating island of Delos, still bearing its archaic name of Asterios, which was neither mainland nor a real island, and gave birth there, promising the island wealth from the worshippers who would flock to the obscure birthplace of the splendid god who was to come.
Mindaugas is an archaic disyllabic Lithuanian name, used before the Christianization of Lithuania, and consists of two components: min and daug.
According to Joseph Anglade, a philologist and specialist of medieval literature who helped impose the then archaic term Occitan as the sole correct name, the word Lemosin was first used to designate the language at the beginning of the 13th century by Catalan troubadour Raimon Vidal de Besalú in his Razós de trobar
Of the four deities of Empedocles's elements, it is the name of Persephone alone that is taboo — Nestis is a euphemistic cult title — for she was also the terrible Queen of the Dead, whose name was not safe to speak aloud, who was euphemistically named simply as Kore or " the Maiden ", a vestige of her archaic role as the deity ruling the underworld.
According to Pherecydes of Syros, the second element of his name is derived from, an archaic word for " tree ".
Quicksilver is an archaic name for the element mercury.
* From Rumon or Rumen, archaic name of the Tiber, which in turn has the same root as the Greek verb ῥέω ( rhèo ) and the Latin verb ruo, which both mean " flow ";
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Whatever the psychological truth in the Oedipus myth, an Oedipus who is drawn to his fate by irresistible external forces can carry the symbol of humanity and its archaic crime, and the incest that is unknowing renews the mystery of the eternal dream of childhood and absorbs us in the secret.
One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.
The spelling Ἀπόλλων had almost superseded all other forms by the beginning of the common era, but the Doric form Απέλλων is more archaic, derived from an earlier * Απέλjων.
Kouros ( male youth ) is the modern term given to those representations of standing male youths which first appear in the archaic period in Greece.
The sculptors had a clear idea of what a young man is, and embodied the archaic smile of good manners, the firm and springy step, the balance of the body, dignity, and youthful happiness.
The last stage in the development of the Kouros type is the late archaic period ( 520 – 485 BC ), in which the Greek sculpture attained a full knowledge of human anatomy and used to create a relative harmonious whole.
The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.
Club hauling is an archaic technique.
Pliny is presenting an archaic view, as in his time amber was a precious stone brought from the Baltic at great expense, but the Germans, he says, use it for firewood, according to Pytheas.
" The more accurate " amarant " is an archaic variant.
" Amarant " is a more correct, albeit archaic form, chiefly used in poetry.
The subject has been popular in art since classical times ; it is one of several Greek myths of a Greek hero's rescue of the intended victim of an archaic sacred marriage, giving rise to the " princess and dragon " motif.
It is a Latin transliteration from the koine Greek word ( ho aion ), from the archaic ( aiwon ).
The Areopagus, the " mount of Ares " where Paul of Tarsus preached, is sited at some distance from the Acropolis ; from archaic times it was a site of trials.
Not much is known as to the architectural appearance of the Acropolis until the archaic era.
The-dour element, referring to the Burn, means simply ' water ' ( archaic dobur ), and is unconnected to the Scots / English ' dour '.
The script of the second scribe is archaic.
The term leg theory is somewhat archaic and seldom used any more, but the basic tactic still plays a part in modern cricket.
It is also believed that Baltic languages are among the most archaic of the remaining Indo-European languages, despite their late attestation.
One of the features of Baltic languages is the number of conservative or archaic features retained.
Khmer is a member of the Austro-Asiatic language family, the most archaic family in an area that stretches from the Malay Peninsula through Southeast Asia to East India.
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