After modest success, a truce is signed and emperor Valentinian I orders the Saxons to join the Roman army.

After several modest successes, a truce was called and the Saxons gave the Romans young men fit for duty in the Roman military – in exchange for free passage back to their homeland.

In 1956 excavations at Isthmia by the University of Chicago under the direction of Oscar Broneer uncovered the small sanctuary of Palaimon, which eventually had a tiny Roman round temple in the Corinthian order, which appeared on coins of Corinth in the 2nd century CE ; it was the successor to two previous more modest architectural phases of the sanctuary.

Archaeological digs have not revealed any traces of Roman buildings, which seems to indicate that Albi was a modest Roman settlement.

After its early Roman beginnings and a rather modest medieval period, Heerlen became a centre for the coal mining industry in the Netherlands in the late 19th century.

The strategic position of Haverfordwest with its defensive bluff overlooking the lowest fordable point on the Western Cleddau and accessible to sea traffic would have required a Roman presence, probably modest in scale, from the first century AD to protect supplies to and from the coast.

The earliest known Roman depiction of Santa Maria Regina depicting the Virgin Mary as a queen dates to the 6th century and is found in the modest church of Santa Maria Antiqua ( i. e., ancient St. Mary ) built in the 5th century in the Forum Romanum.

The Roman emperor Julian, not content with Eunapius ' more modest eulogy that he was inferior to Porphyry only in style, regarded Iamblichus as more than second to Plato, and claimed he would give all the gold of Lydia for one epistle of Iamblichus.

" Kaplan describes the script at this point as having only a " modest to minimal " understanding of what the ancient Roman world was like, dialogue which veered " between flat Americanisms and stilted formality ", and an ill-defined relationship between Judah Ben-Hur and Messala.

The remains of a modest Roman villa were discovered here in 1839 during the construction of the Great Western Railway.

The 9th of 14 children of a lace merchant, he was born into a devoutly Roman Catholic family of modest means.

Thessaly was only held by a modest Roman observation force under the legatus L. Hortensius, elder brother of Q. Hortensius the orator.

Wamba was, according to one tradition, born in Egitânia, a modest village surrounded by Roman walls that is today called Idanha-a-Velha and located to the northeast of Castelo Branco in Portugal.

As one of the oldest towns in Portugal, with a history of Roman settlement recorded since the year 16 AD, Idanha-a-Velha has been described as a " modest village with a rich historical background ".

Pudens is a Roman cognomen meaning " modest ", borne by a number of individuals, including:

The Bonapartes at the time had a modest four-story home in town ( now a museum known as Casa Buonaparte ) and a rarely used country home in the hills north of the city ( now site of the Arboretum des Milelli ).

South of Namur, further upstream, the river can only carry more modest vessels, although a barge as long as 100 m. can still reach the French border town of Givet.

The modest rear entrance to the town hall is guarded by Old Father Thames, Hammersmith's tutelary deity.

As a result it remained a modest sized market town until the late 20th century.

Middletown is currently populated primarily by commuters and retirees, enjoying a modest tourist trade based primarily on Harbin Hot Springs and the Twin Pine Casino located on the local Rancheria south of the town.

On a high hill within sight of town he built a modest two story mansion with fifteen rooms, the Harris House.

Stevens Landing, and then Newtown, remained a modest river crossing until the construction through the town in the 1880s of the trunk railroad line along the Delmarva Peninsula from Wilmington, Delaware, to Cape Charles on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Much of the remainder of the village is residential, with houses tending from modest and small near downtown, the river and railroad, to more expansive homes ( such as the Victorians along the west side of Ulster Avenue ) being found on the hills, newer development near the southwestern and eastern borders with the town, and 6 small apartment and townhouse complexes.

The more modest house portrayed in NC was also in town.

While all of the lots were not immediately sold, many were, and the town began a modest growth.

The water was heavily mined by wells built by both the railroad and the early town of Big Spring, greatly in excess of its modest recharge rate, until the water table first dropped below the level of the spring outlet, and, finally, was completely depleted by the mid-1920s.

As of the 2000 census, the town population was 180, a modest increase over the 1990 figure of 126.

While the town of Ridgefield is in itself relatively modest in size, the geographic area that is locally also called Ridgefield is quite a bit larger, extending from the Columbia River to its immediate west, the Lewis River to the north, several miles past Interstate 5 to the east, and south nearly to Vancouver, Washington, encompassing both the Clark County Fairgrounds and the Amphitheater at Clark County.

But this “ town ” was still a very modest settlement with just 1, 500 inhabitants.

The densely populated streets of this part of town are full of " modest Capes and colonials " along with other house styles.

Witham has a mainly linear town centre, concentrated on the high street and its two modest shopping precincts form a cross, bisecting the high street, the Newlands Shopping Centre of 70s design to the north and the Grove Centre an 80s brick design to the south.

Baildon has a modest town centre with most everyday amenities including independent traders, estate agents, family law solicitors and a building society branch.

The size of the town, however, remained relatively modest.

* On September 23, 2005, the anniversary of " el Grito de Lares " (" The Cry of Lares ") members of the FBI San Juan field office surrounded a modest home in the outskirts of the town of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, where Ojeda Ríos was believed to be hiding.

The only village of even modest size is the market town Sveg, which used to be the administrive center of the province.

The river between the town and Stratford is managed by the Upper Avon Navigation Trust, and below by the Lower Avon Navigation Trust, reflecting the administration of the river since the Restoration, when the lower Avon required only modest repairs, but significant investment was required above the town.

In the 1540s the town was visited by John Leland, who described it as ' a modest market town of a single street '.

From this modest beginning, the community and its center began to grow, becoming the commercial, social, and educational center of the town .< sup > 1 </ sup >

Mr. James Dillingham Young (" Jim ") and his wife, Della, are a couple living in a modest flat.

Three videos from the album receive modest play on the video channel MuchMusic and radio (" God Made Me ", " Believer " and " Wayne "), but it was a fourth, " Surrounded ", that became her first major Canadian airplay hit in 1997.

Chateaubriand retired to a modest estate he called La Vallée aux Loups (" Wolf Valley "), in Châtenay-Malabry, south of central Paris.

With prosperity came a modest cultural flowering, (" The colonial Athens " was its nickname in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ), the high point of which was the holding of a competition to compose an anthem for Australia in 1859, four decades before nationhood.

Older cottages are typically modest, often semi-detached or terraced, with only four basic rooms (" two up, two down "), although subsequent modifications can create more spacious accommodation.

" His daughter Louisa (" a modest, reserved, and sensible girl ") was asked to sing, and Harris accompanied her.

One very important auteur was Ruperto Chapí, who spent his life oscillating between attempts to create a proper Spanish opera, and his modest género chico plays, which included Música Clásica (" Classical Music "), La revoltosa (" The Rebel Girl "), ¡ Las doce y media y sereno!

Abu Bakr, like later Almoravid rulers, took up the comparatively modest title of amir al-Muslimin (" Prince of the Muslims "), rather than the caliphal amir al-Mu ' minin (" Commander of the Faithful ").

He is a modest bear though ; he always dresses in a simple, checkered coat and his car, nicknamed " De Oude Schicht " (" The Old Bolt ( of lightning )"), is reliable, but not extravagant.

During the 1940s, Patterson and his wife, Frances (" Francie ") Helena, lived in a modest home in La Jolla, California.

In 1987, Zabranjeno Pušenje recorded a song titled " Srce, ruke i lopata " (" Heart, Hands and a Shovel "), paying tribute to Comrade Alija, the model of a hard working, modest man.

The school has five playing fields and two practice fields ; a skating rink, with artificial ice-making and maintenance system, and recently refurbished locker rooms ; six tennis courts (" composition " courts, newly resurfaced ); a 13-station ropes course ; a mountain biking course, of trails ( for cross-country running and skiing, snowshoeing, and walks ); and a winter sports park, complete with snowmaking, three different-sized ski jumps, a modest ski slope, lighting, and a grooming machine.

Born in Padua, the son of an innkeeper, who claimed a connection to the noble Cornaro family of Venice, a connection he was at pains to prove, Cornaro expanded a modest stake from his mother's brother into a fortune based on his entrepreneurial skills, especially in hydraulics that reclaimed wetlands for farming, expressed in his Tratto di Acque (" Tract on Water management "), ( 1566 ).