The limes was a cross-path or a cross-wall, which the Romans meant to throw across the path of invaders to hinder them.

The best remedy for a mutiny was an expedition across the limes.

Some kings of the Alamanni of the 4th and 5th centuries are known by name, the first being Chrocus ( died 306 ), a military leader who organized raids across the limes during the 3rd century.

* In the book, Amy is pulled out of school when her teacher, Mr. Davis, strikes her across the hand with a ruler when she hides limes in her desk ; but in the movie, she is in trouble for drawing pictures on her slate, and she is not struck.

Here, at the highest spot, the Romans built a castellum ( Castellum Laurum ), as part of the limes of the Roman Empire and thus part of the defense lines of the northern border of the Roman Empire.

In later tradition Asparuh is credited with building the major centers of Pliska and Drăstăr, as well as at least one of the Bulgarian limes walls from the Danube to the Black Sea.

The name comes from the Latin limes for " limit ", referring to the landform's position at the border of two Roman provinces: Dalmatia and Italia.

Recent attempts at alternative crops such as tea trees, mangoes, sugar cane, coffee, lemons, limes, avocados, papaws, papayas, peanuts, soya beans, lychees, and cash crops ( pumpkins, melons, etc.

They were replaced with hybrid limes at much wider spacing which are now reaching maturity.

Rogers stocked his ships with limes to fend off scurvy, a practice not universally accepted at that time.

The produce section stocks items such as crabapples, meyer lemons, sweet limes, and pink lemons that are hard to find at other stores.

But the eastern border of the Roman province was by AD 120 set at the Limes Transalutanus (" Trans-Olt Frontier "), a line to the east of the river Aluta ( Olt ), thus excluding the Wallachian plain between the limes and the river Siret.

However, historically it became the accepted ( substantivated ) name for those Roman imperial troops ( legions and auxiliary ) which were not merely garrisoned at a limes ( fortified border, on the Rhine and Danube in Europe and near Persia and the desert tribes elsewhere ) — the limitanei or ripenses, i. e. ' along the shores ' — but more mobile line troops ; furthermore there were second line troops, named pseudocomitatenses, former limitanei attached to the comitatus ; palatini, elite (" palace ") units typically assigned to magistri militum ; and the scholae palatinae of actual palace guards, notably under the magister officiorum, a major court official of the Late Empire.

In August of that year, he borrowed $ 3000 ( at 40 % interest ) for a shipload of limes, oranges, bananas, and pears, preserving it with 15 tons of ice and 3 tons of hay.

Beyond the limes, east of the Euphrates, the Sassanid rulers of the Persian Empire, perennially at war with Rome, had usually tolerated Christianity.

Augustus and his successors brought it into further importance with the construction of the Via Claudia Augusta, which began at Altino and reached the " limes " of the northeast at the Danube, a distance of 350 m, by way of the Lake of Constance.

He performed an exhaustive market research on the available hydraulic limes, visiting their production sites, and noted that the " hydraulicity " of the lime was directly related to the clay content of the limestone from which it was made.

* The South Lawn limes are double rows of pleached red twigged limes on either side of the South Lawn, which were planted in 1952.

* Kamp, a park in the English style with magnificent oaks, limes, chestnuts and elms, and which forms an artistic unit with buildings in the purest Classicist style, including:

The stem of limes, limit -, which can be seen in the genitive case, limitis, marks it as the ancestor of an entire group of important words in many languages, for example, English limit.

Roman writers and subsequent authors who depended on them presented the limes as some sort of sacred border beyond which human beings did not transgress, and if they did, it was evidence that they had passed the bounds of reason and civilization.

According to Pokorny, Latin limen, " threshold ", is related to limes, being the stone over which one enters or leaves the house, and some have gone so far as to view the frontier as a threshold.

Although it has long since been replaced by electric lighting, the term has nonetheless survived, as someone in the public eye is still said to be “ in the limelight .” The actual lights are called limes, a term which has been transferred to electrical equivalents.

It is thought that the Japanese introduced limes to the island, which now bear fruit almost all year round and are of the highest quality.

Sponge fishermen spent many contiguous days on their boats, and stored their food on board, including nutritional basics such as canned milk ( which would not spoil without refrigeration ), limes and eggs.

For this reason, " limey " ( lemons being replaced by limes, which could be obtained from Britain's Caribbean colonies ) later became a common slang word for a British person.

They lost all but a few hectares of the original hacienda, changing from sugar cane to limes, which could be intensively cultivated.

According to another constitution of the same emperors, the agrimensor was to receive an aureus from each of any three bordering proprietors whose boundaries he settled, and if he set a limes right between proprietors, he received an aureus for each twelfth part of the property through which fee restored the limes.

The limes – the word from which the English word “ limit ” is derived – protected the areas that were under direct Roman control by funnelling contacts with the interior through the major settlements, regulating the links between the nomads and transhumants with the towns and farms of the occupied areas.

Other chilled drinks include sago't gulaman a flavored iced-drink with sago pearls and agar gelatin with banana extract sometimes added to the accompanying syrup ; fresh buko juice, the water or juice straight out of a young coconut via an inserted straw, a less fresh variation of which is made out of bottled coconut juice, scraped coconut flesh, sugar, and water ; and calamansi juice, the juice of Philippine limes usually sweetened with honey, syrup or sugar.

His recommendation for its cure was fresh food or, if not available, oranges, lemons, limes and tamarinds, or as a last resort, Oil of Vitriol ( sulfuric acid ).

In the subsequent peaceful years, the limes lost its temporary character.

Even earlier, compare the highly-defended Roman Empire's limes with its " client kingdoms " like Palmyra, Judaea, Numidia or Mauretania, and the Persian Empire's system of satrapies.

It is valued for its unique flavor compared to other limes, with the Key lime usually having a more tart and bitter flavor.

In the course of this enormous project, not completed for decades, intensive exploration of the Saalburg and its surroundings was pursued by the archaeologists charged with this stretch of the limes, Louis Jacobi ( 1836 – 1910 ) and his son and successor Heinrich Jacobi ( 1855 – 1946 ).

The Saalburg in its final architectural phase, in the form reconstructed today, as a cohort fort typical for this part of the limes, a 147 by 221 m rectangle with 4 gates.

The fort was oriented in such a way that its main gate, or porta praetoria faced south-south-east, that is away from the limes but towards Nida.

The Saalburg is not only the most consistently reconstructed limes fort, it is also the only one to have had its vicus ( adjacent civilian settlement ) partially excavated and preserved.

Beyond this, the Saalburg has, since its reerection, also functioned as an internationally renowned centre of research, concerned with provincial Roman archaeology in general, and the limes in particular.

As along most of its extent in the Taunus area, the limes near the Saalburg is remarkably well preserved and can be easily followed through the landscape.

At its height, the limes stretched from the North Sea outlet of the Rhine to near Regensburg on the Danube.