Ammonius asks Plutarch what he, being a Boeotian, has to say for Cadmus, the Phoenician who reputedly settled in Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for ox — which, unlike Hesiod, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third, but the first of all necessities.

However, despite the fact that he never officially bore the name Octavianus, to save confusing the dead dictator with his heir, historians often refer to the new Caesar — between his adoption and his assumption, in 27 BC, of the name Augustus — as Octavian.

Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian, Valentinian II and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism .< ref name = " MacMullen1984p100 "> MacMullen ( 1984 ) p. 100: ‘ The law of June 391, issued by Theodosius [...] was issued from Milan and represented the will of its bishop, Ambrose ; for Theodosius — recently excommunicated by Ambrose, penitent, and very much under his influence < sup > 43 </ sup > — was no natural zealot.

In Gnostic cosmology, the 7 letters spelling its name represent each of the 7 classic planets — Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

Perhaps the Aster computer inspired another Dutch computer firm to name their computer after another typical Dutch flower — the Tulip's Tulip System-1 which appeared about the same time Aster folded.

( Graetz and others have, incorrectly, En Duran ): Leader of the opposition to the rationalism of the Maimonists in the Montpellier controversy of 1303-1306 ; born at Lunel — hence his name, Yarḥi ( from Yeraḥ

Suggestions made to resolve the difficulty — e. g. that father and son each bore the same double name, or that Abiathar officiated during his father's lifetime and in his father's stead — have been supported by great names, but have not been fully accepted.

An object is uniquely identified by its name and has a set of attributes — the characteristics and information that the object represents — defined by a schema, which also determines the kinds of objects that can be stored in Active Directory.

“ It ’ s phonetic Hebrew — that ’ s what it is, all right — and that ’ s what I was getting at with the name Yokum, more so than any attempt to sound hickish ," said Capp.

But it ’ s a godly conceit, really, playing off a godly name — Joachim means ' God ’ s determination ', something like that — that also happens to have a rustic ring to it.

As is usual with collaborative efforts in comic strips, his name was the only one credited — although, sensitive to his own experience working on Joe Palooka, Capp frequently drew attention to his assistants in interviews and publicity pieces.

It is the most widely copied Old English poem, and appears in 45 manuscripts, but its attribution to Bede is not absolutely certain — not all manuscripts name Bede as the author, and the ones that do are of later origin than those that do not.

Ballpoint pens are often provided free by businesses as a form of advertising — printed with a company's name ; a ballpoint pen is a relatively low cost advertisement that is highly effective ( customers will use, and therefore see, a pen daily ).

Their operating systems, called MCP ( Master Control Program — the name later borrowed by the screenwriters for Tron ), were programmed in ESPOL ( Executive Systems Programming Oriented Language, a minor extension of ALGOL ), and later in NEWP ( with further extensions to ALGOL ) almost a decade before Unix.

This can often be seen on tour buses in China, where the company name customarily runs from the front of the vehicle to its rear — that is, from right to left on the right side of the bus, and from left to right on the left side of the bus.

The name comes from the medieval-Latin term balneum ( or balineum ) Mariae — literally, Mary's bath — from which the French bain de Marie, or bain-marie, is derived.

" This term apparently also inspired the name of the alternate history book list, uchronia. net.

The god apparently felt that the promise would be kept, so he appeared in battle and at the crucial moment he instilled the Persians with his own brand of fear, the mindless, frenzied fear that bore his name: " panic ".

This measure apparently had no great success, since French voyager Pierre Gilles writes in the middle of 16th century that the Greek population of Constantinople was unable to mention any name of the ancient Byzantine churches transformed in mosques or abandoned.

Some sources later, and even today, list his middle name erroneously as " Tecumseh ", apparently as a result of being nicknamed " The Chief " by teammates.

In Emesa he was apparently still alive and in good health: he issued the only extant rescript in his name there, but after he left the city, his staff, including the prefect Aper, reported that he suffered from an inflammation of the eyes.

The name Excalibur apparently derives from the Welsh Caledfwlch which combines the elements (" battle, hard "), and (" breach, gap, notch ").

Enki and later Ea were apparently depicted, sometimes, like Adapa, as a man covered with the skin of a fish, and this representation, as likewise the name of his temple E-apsu, " house of the watery deep ", points decidedly to his original character as a god of the waters ( see Oannes ).

The French accent had apparently been added to the name by Kekulé's father during the Napoleonic occupation of Hesse by France, in order to ensure that French speakers pronounced the third syllable.

One of the stones in Campbell's Chamber bears a mark, apparently the name of a work gang, which incorporates the only reference in the pyramid to Pharaoh Khufu.

The writer who apparently introduced the name Germani into the corpus of classical literature is Julius Caesar.

The Greeks are responsible for the name Iberia, apparently after the river Iber ( Ebro in Spanish ).

Las Casas apparently named the whole island Haití on the basis of that particular region ; d ' Anghiera said that the name of one part was given to the whole island.

The matter was settled out of court on undisclosed terms that apparently allowed both bands to continue using the Nirvana name and issuing new recordings without any packaging disclaimers or caveats to distinguish one Nirvana from the other.

The latter's family had originally been Jewish, but Jaume's father, Guy Gassonet, had converted to Catholicism around 1455, taking the Christian name " Pierre " and the surname " Nostredame " ( the latter apparently from the saint's day on which his conversion was solemnized ).

At the same time, Vladimir Kotelnikov had independently proven absolute security of the one-time pad ; his results were delivered in 1941 in a report that apparently remains classified .< ref name =" kotelnikov "> PACS numbers: 01. 10. Fv, 03. 67. Dd, 89. 70 .+ c

In a Classical period text ascribed to Empedocles, c. 490 – 430 BC, describing a correspondence among four deities and the classical elements, the name Nestis for water apparently refers to Persephone: " Now hear the fourfold roots of everything: enlivening Hera, Hades, shining Zeus.

There never seems to have been a clear definition of what was what ; there were apparently far fewer staff-weapons in use than there were names to call them by ; and contemporary writers up to the seventeenth century use these names with abandon, calling different weapons by the same name and similar weapons by different names.

On the other hand, what appears to be the first known example of " Robin Hood " as stock name for an outlaw dates to 1262 in Berkshire, where the surname " Robehod " was applied to a man apparently because he had been outlawed.

Grainne defended it against them successfully, and apparently the Joyces were so impressed with her abilities in battle that they renamed it Caisleán na Circe, the " Hen's Castle ," the name by which it is still known.

The meaning of Airgíalla ' hostage givers ' adds to the uncertainty, although it must be observed that only one grouping in Ireland was apparently given this name and it is therefore very rare, perhaps supporting the Ui Macc Uais hypothesis.

Believing he was under suspicion of atheism himself, he wrote to the Lord Keeper, Sir John Puckering, protesting his innocence, but his efforts to clear his name were apparently fruitless.

1 Chronicles explains the second Goliath by saying that Elhanan " slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath ", apparently constructing the name Lahmi from the last portion of the word " Bethlehemite " (" beit-ha ’ lahmi ").

The name ' Phoenicia ' is connected with the Greek word for " purple ", apparently referring to the same product, but it is difficult to state with certainty whether the Greek word came from the name, or vice versa.

AMC executives apparently felt confident enough to not worry that the Gremlin name might have negative connotations.

He was nicknamed the " Austrian Oak " and the " Styrian Oak " in his bodybuilding days, " Arnie " during his acting career and more recently " The Governator " ( a portmanteau of " Governor " and " The Terminator "-one of his most well-known movie roles ).< ref name =" IMDb bio ">

The name " Bollywood " is a portmanteau derived from Bombay ( the former name for Mumbai ) and Hollywood, the center of the American film industry.

The name is a portmanteau of GNU and Nutella, the brand name of an Italian hazelnut flavored spread: supposedly, Frankel and Pepper ate a lot of Nutella working on the original project, and intended to license their finished program under the GNU General Public License.

The term was a portmanteau of the governor's last name and the word salamander.

The band name is a portmanteau of " jam session " and " iroquai ", based on the Iroquois, a Native American tribe.

The name was created as a portmanteau of the words " Mosaic killer ", hinting that Netscape would be the end to the ( then only ) competitor browser, Mosaic.

The memex ( a portmanteau of " memory " and " index ") is the name of the hypothetical proto-hypertext system that Vannevar Bush described in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article " As We May Think " ( AWMT ).

The name " okapi " is a portmanteau of two Lese words, oka a verb meaning to cut and kpi which is a noun referring to the design made on Efé arrows by wrapping the arrow with bark so as to leave stripes when scorched by fire.

The name is a portmanteau of pub and gastronomy and was coined in 1991 when David Eyre and Mike Belben took over The Eagle pub in Clerkenwell, London.

The name Tanzania is a portmanteau of Tanganyika and Zanzibar and previously had no significance.

" Toonie " is a portmanteau word combining the number " two " with the name of the loonie, Canada's one-dollar coin.

The name is a portmanteau of compressing and expanding.

The name " Verdana " is based on a portmanteau of verdant ( something green ), and Ana ( the name of Howlett's eldest daughter ).

Notably, in Russian translation " a mawg " was rendered as " chelobakka ", a portmanteau of words " chelovek " ( a man ) and " sobaka " ( a dog ) also spoofing the name Chewbacca.

Their name is likely a portmanteau of space and the slang term for testicles, as the Spaceballs cover their nether regions with their hands ( as if Dark Helmet was threatening any one of them ) repeatedly during the film.

Taligent ( a portmanteau of Talent and Intelligent ) was the name of an object-oriented operating system and the company dedicated to producing it.

His name is a portmanteau of Luigi's name and the Japanese adjective warui ( 悪い ) meaning " bad "; hence, a " bad Luigi ".

* Valhallen ( voiced by Tom Kenny )-A superhero who resembled Thor, and his name was a portmanteau of Valhalla, the spiritual plane of Norse mythology, and Van Halen, an American rock band.

The name Wario is a portmanteau of Mario's name with the Japanese adjective warui ( 悪い ) meaning " bad "; hence, a " bad Mario " ( further symbolized by the " W " on his hat, an upside down " M ").

The name Florala refers to the town's location, adjacent to the Florida border: it is a portmanteau that combines the beginning letters in the words " Florida " and " Alabama ".