Inevitably, the surviving evidence is not complete enough to determine whether one should interpret, with older scholars, that he wisely curtailed the activities of the Roman Empire to a careful minimum, or perhaps that he was uninterested in events away from Rome and Italy and his inaction contributed to the pressing troubles that faced not only Marcus Aurelius but also the emperors of the third century.

There are groups of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, ( including his only surviving full-scale cartoon ), Dürer ( a collection of 138 drawings is one of the finest in existence ), Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Claude and Watteau, and largely complete collections of the works of all the great printmakers including Dürer ( 99 engravings, 6 etchings and most of his 346 woodcuts ), Rembrandt and Goya.

The only surviving complete works by Epicurus are three letters, which are to be found in book X of Diogenes Laertius ' Lives of Eminent Philosophers, and two groups of quotes: the Principal Doctrines, reported as well in Diogenes ' book X, and the Vatican Sayings, preserved in a manuscript from the Vatican Library.

In his Church History or Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius wrote the first surviving history of the Christian Church as a chronologically-ordered account, based on earlier sources complete from the period of the Apostles to his own epoch.

Although his surviving works amount to some 3 million words, this is thought to represent less than a third of his complete writings.

The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest surviving example of a complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world.

After that is complete, the maker will use a crescent shaped knife, called lunarium or lunellum, to clean any surviving hairs.

Although the nearby Temple of Hephaestus is the most complete surviving example of a Doric order temple, the Parthenon, in its day, was regarded as the finest.

All but one, the " Rhapsody in Lament for Gentleman who do not Meet their Time " ( 士不遇賦 ) have been lost, and even the surviving example is probably not complete.

In translating the 39 books of the Hebrew Bible, Jerome was relatively free in rendering their text into Latin, but it is possible to determine that the oldest surviving complete manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, which date from nearly 600 years after Jerome, nevertheless transmit a consonantal Hebrew text very close to that used by Jerome.

His Socratic writings, preserved complete, along with the dialogues of Plato, are the only surviving representatives of the genre of Sokratikoi logoi.

In the most complete surviving account, the Argonautica of Apollonius, Medea fell in love with him and promised to help him, but only on the condition that if he succeeded, he would take her with him and marry her.

Some surviving structures are almost complete, such as the town walls of Lugo in Hispania Tarraconensis, or northern Spain.

Both Homer and Hesiod and their listeners were aware of the details of this myth, but no surviving complete account exists: some papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhynchus are all that survive of Stesichorus ' telling ; the myth repertory called Bibliotheke (" The Library ") contains the gist of the tale, and before that was compiled the Roman poet Ovid told the story in some colorful detail in his Metamorphoses.

1455, one of only 42 surviving complete copies.

The oldest surviving example of a complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world, is the Seikilos epitaph.

There are only four complete TOTP episodes surviving from the 1960s, while many otherwise-missing episodes survive only as fragments.

Much later, in the 4th or 5th century, appears the large collection of recipes conventionally entitled ' Apicius ', the only more or less complete surviving cookbook from the classical world.

The restored courthouse square contains Michigan ’ s oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest ’ s most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex.

The German dominance of the region was almost complete by the 1870s, and most of the surviving farm houses and outbuildings are associated with that era.

Inchcolm Abbey has the most complete surviving remains of any Scottish monastic house.

The oldest surviving manuscript, and only complete copy, is Corpus Christi College, Cambridge MS 173, which contains both Alfred ’ s and Ine ’ s law codes and the oldest extant text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

He did not specify what laws he omitted, but if they were the ones no longer relevant in his own time, it cannot be assumed that the surviving version of Ine's laws is complete.

After surviving that, he began pressing his old label, RCA, to release a boxed-set retrospective of his career, and resumed recording, attempting to complete one final album.

Left in Constantinople with the small number of surviving followers, during the winter of 1096-1097, with little hope of securing Byzantine support, the People's Crusade awaited the coming of the armed crusaders as their sole source of protection to complete the pilgrimage.

Due to fires, structural failures, and infiltrations, and new organizational requirements and modifications or complete overhaulings of the ornamental trappings there was hardly a moment in which come kind of works have not been under way at the building.

Tissue is a cellular organizational level intermediate between cells and a complete organism.

ASWSU's organizational framework is similar to that of most American governments complete with an appointed and confirmed judiciary, elected representatives ( from districts ) to a senate, and an annually elected president and vice-president team.

The School of Continuing Education offers courses to complete an associate's degree or bachelor's degree with programs including social sciences, theology, organizational studies, humanities, and liberal studies.

Though Hague, like other political bosses of the time, was not above outright fraud at the polls, the keys to Hague's success were his matchless organizational skills and demand for complete loyalty from his subordinates.

These efforts usually involve a strong process-orientation: the complete service-provision process of the business is split up into partial processes, which can then be handled autonomously by cross-functional teams within organizational units ( modules ).

Although teams have been successful with differing organizational philosophies, few teams are able to complete expedition length races with poor team dynamics.

Students earning a community psychology degree complete courses that focus on: history and concepts of the field, human diversity and cultural competence, public health, community research methods and statistics, collaborative work in communities, organizational and community development and consultation, prevention and intervention, program evaluation, and grantwriting.

The break became complete in December 1971 when Abernathy suspended Jackson for “ administrative improprieties and repeated acts of violation of organizational policy .” Jackson resigned from Operation Breadbasket, called together his allies, and Operation PUSH was born.

A year after being drafted, he tied for the organizational lead in strikeouts, and in 2002 led the organization in complete games.

During the organizational stage of the process, many of the technical aspects and formatting of the show was complete and the company was able to focus on the next stage.

unfortunately, no one has kept complete records of one individual, whereas many have been made for a very short period of time.

In addition to wins, Young still holds the major league records for most career innings pitched ( 7, 355 ), most career games started ( 815 ), and most complete games ( 749 ).

Willis holds many Marlins pitching records including single season victories ( 22 ), franchise losses ( 54 ), complete games ( 15 ), shutouts ( 8 ), innings pitched ( 1, 022 ⅔ ), and is second in franchise victories ( 67 ).

When storing records in a large unsorted file, one may use a hash function to map each record to an index into a table T, and collect in each bucket T a list of the numbers of all records with the same hash value i. Once the table is complete, any two duplicate records will end up in the same bucket.

The National Archives of Canada, in its biographical sketches of Canadian Prime Ministers, records show that on one occasion during the war, Trudeau and his friends drove their motorcycles wearing Prussian military uniforms, complete with pointed steel helmets.

In such cases, requestors asking for a Purple Heart ( especially from records of the First World War ) are provided with a complete copy of all available records ( or reconstructed records in the case of the 1973 fire ) and advised that the Purple Heart may be privately purchased if the requestor feels it is warranted.

According to temple records, this natural causeway was formerly complete, but was breached by a violent storm ( probably a cyclone ) in 1480.

A complete instrument package that records seismic signals is called a seismograph.

* Full transparency for Taco Bell ’ s tomato purchases in Florida ; the agreement commits Taco Bell to buy only from Florida growers who agree to the pass-through and to document and monitor the pass-through, providing complete records of Taco Bell ’ s Florida tomato purchases and growers ’ wage records to the CIW.

In the absence of complete or clear records of any triumphal ceremony, attempted reconstruction presumes a traditional, conservative framework in which details omitted from one account can be furnished from another.

Because most MKUltra records were deliberately destroyed in 1973 by order of then CIA director Richard Helms, it has been difficult, if not impossible, for investigators to gain a complete understanding of the more than 150 individually funded research sub-projects sponsored by MKUltra and related CIA programs.

The modern records ( those pertaining from 1950 – present ) are the most complete and accurate summary of the famines occurring in Africa.

It also marks the introduction of religious themes in Swans records with the sacrificial ode " A Hanging ", complete with gospel-like backing vocals from Jarboe.

At the conclusion of his On the Erythraean Sea, he apologizes for being unable to complete his work " since our age is unable to similarly bear the toil " and " as a result of the disturbances in Egypt " he could no longer access the official records ( a fragment cited by Photius in his Bibliotheca Cod.

He compiled a complete index of South Bend ’ s real estate records.

It has all its original records and archives dating to November 1789 making it one of the more complete archives of the history of Kentucky.

The records of Hillsborough Township are complete from their inception in 1746 and there are ten volumes, each some several hundred pages, kept in the Special Collections Department of the Rutgers University Library along with the Charter.

The old library occupies the upper floor of the south and west ranges of Mob Quad, and the original archive room is still in the north east corner ; it houses one of the most complete sets of college records in Europe.

Because of the technical restrictions of recording on 78 rpm records, none of these scores were recorded totally complete ; they were shorter than cast albums made after LPs were introduced.

British Decca released on LP, in 1968, the most complete version of Man of La Mancha ever put on vinyl records, a 2-LP album featuring most of the dialogue and all of the songs, performed by the show's original London cast.