Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

When the full bragafull came in, King Ingjald stood up, grasped a large bull's horn, and made a solemn vow to enlarge his dominions by one half, towards all the four corners of the world, or die ; and thereupon pointed with the horn to the four quarters.

However, when the beaker was brought in, he took a bull's horn and made the solemn vow that he would enlarge his own kingdom by half towards all the four quarters, towards which he pointed his horn, or die.

However, in the accuracy challenge O ' Brien would more than double the points of the next best quarterback by hitting all of the targets including a near perfect 50-yard pass that was close to the bull's eye.

Indeed, so deeply is he committed to the concept that men are alike that he may even fancy that there exists a kind of human dead center in which everyone is identical with everyone else, and that if he can hit that psychic bull's eye he can make all mankind twitch at once.

When a rider has been hung up, they face the extremely dangerous task of trying to free the rider, with one team member going to the bull's head and the other attempting to release the rider.

Besides gelatin, other fining agents for wine are often derived from animal products, such as micronized potassium casseinate ( casein is milk protein ), egg whites, egg albumin, bone char, bull's blood, isinglass ( Sturgeon bladder ), PVPP ( a synthetic compound ), lysozyme, and skim milk powder.

' Across the top of the shield a gold panel on which there is a bull's head in profile muzzled, cut off at the neck and a merino ram's head, facing each other, both naturally coloured.

This ritual consists of an acrobatic leap over a bull ; when the leaper grasps the bull's horns, the bull will violently jerk his neck upwards giving the leaper the momentum necessary to perform somersaults and other acrobatic tricks or stunts.

The bull-leapers are respected athletes, for they grasp the bull's horns and fly off them when his head rears and are caught by other dancers when they land.

A picador is a bullfighter who uses a special lance called pica while on horseback to test the bull's strength and to provide clues to the matador on which side the bull is favouring.

A bachelor party ( Canada, South Africa and the United States ), also known as a stag party, stag night or stag do ( especially in Commonwealth countries and Ireland ), a bull's party ( South Africa ), or a buck's party or buck's night ( Australia ), is a party held for a man shortly before he enters marriage, to celebrate his " last night of freedom " or merely to spend time with his male friends, who are often at his wedding party afterwards.

But when the baby thrust his head under the big bull's belly, looking for an udder, the sharpened horns punctured and killed the bull, and the Minangkabau won the contest and the dispute.

An extension of the spirit level is the bull's eye level: a circular, flat-bottomed device with the liquid under a slightly convex glass face which indicates the center clearly.

Above the back of the bull is a female figure wielding a sword and two dogs, one over the bull's head and another under its hooves.

He had received secret instructions permitting him to include more names under the bull's threat of excommunication at his discretion.

* Type II: the acrobat approaches the bull from the front, dives over the horns without touching them and pushes himself with his hands from the bull's back into a backward somersault

In the history of writing symbols proceeded from ideographic ( such as an icon of a bull's head in a list inventory, denoting that the following numeral refers to head of cattle ) to logographic ( an icon of a bull denoting the Semitic word ʾālep " ox "), to phonetic ( the bull's head used as a symbol in rebus writing, indicating the glottal stop at the beginning of the word for " ox ", namely, the letter aleph ).

* c. 2550 BC – 2400 BC: Great Lyre with bull's head, from the tomb of King Meskalamdug, Ur ( modern Muqaiyir, Iraq, is made.

A pillar from Trier shows a man with an axe cutting down a tree in which sit three birds and a bull's head.

Beta Tauri has the traditional name Elnath, El Nath, or Alnath, which comes from the Arabic word النطح an-naţħ, meaning " the butting " ( i. e. the bull's horns ).

A bull's format began with one line in tall elongated letters containing three elements: the Pope's name, the Papal title episcopus servus servorum Dei, meaning ' bishop, servant of the servants of God ', and the few Latin words that constituted the incipit from which the bull would also take its name for record keeping purposes, but which might not be directly indicative of the bull's purpose.

In Minoan Crete, silver and gold bulls ' heads with round openings for the wine ( permitting wine to pour from the bull's mouth ) seemed particularly common, for several have been recovered from the great palaces ( Iraklion Archaeological Museum ).

Golden bull's head from Altyn-Depe.

The diagonal distance from the bull's eye to the oche,, may also be used.

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* The bull's tail forms the image of a flame with smoke rising from it, seemingly appearing in a window created by the lighter shade of gray surrounding it.

* Xapchyk ( rattle made of a dried bull's scrotum filled with the knuckle bones from sheep )

The community received its name from an 18th-century tavern located at the intersection of Victory Boulevard and Richmond Avenue ( the neighborhood's central point ), from which a sign bearing a bull's head was displayed.

Young bloods fired up on cheap local wine and wearing traditional red and yellow Catalan outfits, chase from behind in an attempt to catch hold of the bull's tail and hold on for as long as they can.

This rectangular-shaped burst of colors immediately grasps the viewer's attention and steers it down towards the visibly emerging shape of a dying bull's head ( probably Islero ), dripping blood and saliva from its mouth.

The young man raced over to the woman and grabbed the shawl and threw it at the bull, thus saving her from the bull's horns.

For instance, the bull's horns are sharpened and the matador cannot use any weapons.

Lyme disease clinical features include the characteristic bull's eye rash and erythema chronicum migrans ( a rash which spreads peripherally and spares the central part ), as well as myocarditis, cardiomyopathy, arrythmia, arthritis, arthralgia, meningitis, neuropathies and facial nerve palsy.

The gods filled a sacrificial bull's hide with their urine ( or sperm ), then told Hyrieus to bury it.

Their main colour is blue and their emblem a bull's head and horns.

On his silver portrait types he appears either diademed or dressed in various types of head-gear worn by earlier kings: the elephant scalp of Demetrios I, a bull's horns helmet or Corinthian helmet with scales, and the Greek flat hat " kausia ".

* Then there are the labial clicks, written with a bull's eye,.

The logo was an abstract depiction of a bull's head, split in such a way to resemble the flag of Texas, including a lone star to stand for the eye, the five points of which representing pride, courage, strength, tradition and independence.

After immediately executing Vortigern's orders, Hengist took a bull's hide, and made the hide into a single thong.

Many masterpieces have also been found at the Royal Cemetery at Ur ( c. 2650 BC ), including the two figures of a Ram in a Thicket, the Copper Bull and a bull's head on one of the Lyres of Ur.

The grave objects included a golden bull's head and the famous golden insects ( perhaps bees, cicadas, aphids, or flies ) on which Napoleon modelled his coronation cloak.

Studies suggest that the calls made by female moose during the rut not only call the males but can actually induce a bull to invade another bull's harem and fight for control of it.

Nowhere has the essence of the myth been expressed more succinctly than in the Heroides attributed to Ovid, where Pasiphaë's daughter complains of the curse of her unrequited love: " the bull's form disguised the god, Pasiphaë, my mother, a victim of the deluded bull, brought forth in travail her reproach and burden.

Ovid's Latin account of the Minotaur, which did not elaborate on which half was bull and which half man, was the most widely available during the Middle Ages, and several later versions show the reverse of the Classical configuration, a man's head and torso on a bull's body, reminiscent of a centaur.

In reversal to the Greek myth and classical tradition, many commentators believe that Dante bestowed the beast with a man's head upon a bull's body.

However, perhaps inevitably, there were also rumours surrounding his death ; that finding that he could not keep the promises that he had made to the king, he committed suicide by taking poison, or drinking bull's blood.

Other bachelors are allowed in a bull's stretch, as long as they behave submissively toward the bull.

Numerous precious objects were found, including a richly ornamented sword, a torse-like bracelet, jewels of gold and garnet cloisonné, gold coins, a gold bull's head and a ring with the inscription (" of Childeric the king "), which identified the tomb.

She is represented as a young woman chained to a throne shaped as a bull's head and has wind-related abilities.

" At one point in the song, Larry says "... I think that's the bull's cousin.

A study by Dr. Malathi Raghavan, DVM, PhD questions the pit bull's reputation as a dangerous breed.

It resembled a bull's voice in the noise of the water ; its windings and its reaches gave rise to the story about his forming himself into a serpent and about his horns ; the formation of islands at the mouth of the river requires no explanation.

However, Aeson committed suicide by drinking bull's blood.

She hanged herself or else drank, along with her husband and the child Promachus, of bull's blood and so died.