In his Fasti, a long-form poem covering Roman holidays from January to June, Ovid presents a unique look at Roman antiquarian lore, popular customs, and religious practice that is by turns imaginative, entertaining, high-minded, and scurrilous ; not a priestly account, despite the speaker's pose as a vates or inspired poet-prophet, but a work of description, imagination and poetic etymology that reflects the broad humor and burlesque spirit of such venerable festivals as the Saturnalia, Consualia, and feast of Anna Perenna on the Ides of March, where Ovid treats the assassination of the newly deified Julius Caesar as utterly incidental to the festivities among the Roman people.

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church ( which derives, however, from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from the Bible ) that God is completely independent of his creation and so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world.

The name and order Asterales is botanically venerable, dating back to at least 1926 in the Hutchinson system of plant taxonomy when it contained only five families, of which only two are retained in the APG III classification.

Among the tournaments in this series is the venerable All-England Championships, first held in 1900, which was once considered the unofficial world championships of the sport.

But now We join Our voice to that of Our predecessor John XXIII of venerable memory, and We make Our own his words: " No statement of the problem and no solution to it is acceptable which does violence to man's essential dignity ; those who propose such solutions base them on an utterly materialistic conception of man himself and his life.

When the venerable Roman pontiff heard that, said: " Most beloved brethren, today is manifest in you what the Lord says in the Gospel, ' Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them.

” As the Holy Apostolic See has made known to us that the blasphemous errors of a certain Photius against the Holy Ghost are still vigorous in the East, errors which teach that the Holy Spirit proceeds not from the Son but from the Father only we exhort you venerable brethren, together with us, in accordance with the admonition of the ruler of the Roman See, after a careful study of the works of the Fathers, to draw from the quiver of Holy Writ arrows sharp enough to slay the monster which is again springing into life .”

There is also a quote etched in the marble of the chamber, as stated by venerable statesman Daniel Webster: " Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

Vandalism is the behaviour attributed originally to the Vandals, by the Romans, in respect of culture: ruthless destruction or spoiling of anything beautiful or venerable.

Though in general the witan were recognized as the king's closest advisors and policy-makers, various witan also operated in other capacities ; there are mentions of þeodwitan, ' people's witan ', Angolcynnes witan, ' England's witan ', and an Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of York, Wulfstan II, wrote that " it is incumbent on bishops, that venerable witan always travel with them, and dwell with them, at least of the priesthood ; and that they may consult with them .. and who may be their counsellors at every time.

To do so, he had to overcome the century-old view, expressed in the venerable Isaac Newton's " Optics ", that light is a particle.

This is not unusual ; the genre of the letter has been a venerable medium for composing authoritative texts as far back as the Apostle Paul.

They are based on highly abstract theories – venerable, academic inventions, half misunderstood by those who are applying them today, and based on assumptions which are contrary to the facts … Our main task, therefore, will be to confirm the reader ’ s instinct that what seems sensible is sensible, and what seems nonsense is nonsense.

The venerable structure is maintained publicly, and private munificence has provided several stained-glass windows.

They believed that no matter how venerable the traditional source, traditional authority is always open to question by comparison to what the Scriptures say.

The list is not exhaustive, as the concertina is not only a venerable and widespread instrument, but also an evolving instrument: modern experiments in concertina construction include chromatic scales offering more than 12 steps per octave, and instruments which allow the pitch of the notes to be sharped or flatted by the performer.

History shows that this governance is, for the most part, indirect, exercised through certain venerable corporations, as well civil and ecclesiastical, all of which demand implicit obedience as the immediate representatives of God.

At Er-riha ( Jericho ) there is a large, venerable looking square tower, which by tradition is named the House of Zacchaeus.

Dwindling profits and surging cost of production have made small villages economy in Bolivia extremely venerable and unstable ; as a result, unemployment rate sours and small business is on the verge of bankruptcy, which in return made government intervention very inefficient and deferred many governmental initiatives and attempts to improve the condition.

In other words, the collection contains the appeal of an art at its pristine source with a romantic sense of venerable age and therefore of an ideal order since lost.

Accompanied by Athena ( still disguised as Mentor ), he departs for the Greek mainland and the household of Nestor, most venerable of the Greek warriors at Troy, now at home in Pylos.

One day, while Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll were hard at work at NBC writing their venerable Amos and Andy show, a knock came on the door ; it was Paley himself, with an astonishing offer: " Whatever you are getting now I will give you twice as much.

The curious here, aware of such traditions, and who have viewed these venerable remains of antiquity, agree that Macbeth may, or rather must, have deposited the stone in question at the bottom of his Castle, on the hill of Dunsinane ( from the trouble of the times ), where it has been found by the workmen.

Orderic reports on an incident at Easter 1105 when Robert was supposed to hear a sermon by the venerable Serlo, Bishop of Sées.

The revolutionary outbreak of 1848 rekindled in the venerable patriot his old hopes and energies, and he took seat as one of the deputies to the National Assembly at Frankfurt.

Also it is stated by Ved Vyasa in Mahabharata, the main Epic which portrays Lord Krishna as principal hero, that venerable sage Maharishi Narada once visited Lord Krishna at Brindavan.

Also sold — to Honeywell — was Sperry Flight Systems, while Sperry Defense Products Group was sold to Martin Marietta ; those two units whose functions were originally at the heart of the venerable Sperry Gyroscope division.

This place, of which the name, signifying " the head of the lakes ," is derived from two large pools, near the church, of about fifty acres in extent, was originally of much greater importance than at present, and the seat of one of the most extensive and venerable ecclesiastical establishments in this part of the principality.

Nothing also distributed music from Warp Records, Sheffield, England's venerable electronic music label, under an exclusive license in the U. S., with albums by Autechre, Plaid, and Squarepusher ( although Warp's most illustrious artist Aphex Twin appeared on the Further Down the Spiral release, he was already under a contract with Sire Records in the U. S. at the time ).

Tragically, Sun Ce also dies at the pinnacle of his career from illness under stress of his terrifying encounter with the ghost of Yu Ji, a venerable magician whom he had falsely accused and executed in jealousy.

He is one whom innocent children instinctively venerate and reverence, and to whom men of venerable age come to seek for wisdom, and call him father ; at whose feet men fall down and lay bare the innermost thoughts of their souls, and weep their most sacred tears.

Soon enough he was appointed to the position of steward, or abbot, at the venerable Buddhist college Vikramasila, established by the King Dharmapala of Bengal.

The venerable monk moved around the region for another five years before passing away in 1052 at the prophesied age of seventy-two.

Later research was to vindicate the Muscovite service-books as belonging to a different recension from that which was used by the Greeks at the time of Nikon, and the unrevised Muscovite books were actually older and more venerable than the Greek books, which had undergone several revisions over the centuries and ironically, were newer and contained innovations.

There he wrote Memoires d ' un pere ( 4 vols., 1804 ), including a picturesque review of his life, a literary history of two important reigns, a great gallery of portraits extending from the venerable Jean Baptiste Massillon, whom more than half a century previously he had seen at Clermont, to Honoré Mirabeau.

::' I heartily wish those venerable Odes were still extant, which Cato informs us in his Antiquities, used to be sung by every guest in his turn at the homely feasts of our ancestors, many ages before, to commemorate the feats of their heroes.

Francisco and Jacinta were declared venerable by Pope John Paul II in a public ceremony at Fatima on 13 May 1989.

At least one analyst characterized the agreement as " SEIU surrendered most of the assets of the venerable splinter union it had tried to absorb, and gave up some jurisdiction it had sought ..."

In response, Callicott offered two second-order principles as a framework to adjudicate between conflicting first-order duties: 1 ) “ obligations generated by membership in more venerable and intimate communities take precedence over those generated in more recently emerged and impersonal communities ”; 2 ) “ stronger interests take precedence over duties generated by weaker interests .” Because our various human community memberships are both more venerable and intimate and because human interests in enjoying rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are very strong, Callicott argues that our traditional obligations to individual fellow human beings trump our obligations to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community — at least, he believes, when it comes to the prospect of culling members of the overpopulous Homo sapiens species.

Lao ( 老 ) means " venerable " or " old ", such as modern Mandarin laoshi ( 老师 ), " teacher ".

Of the venerable pile itself, little is left, except an arch, and the fragment of a fine old wall, about forty feet high.

Harriet has evacuated her family to the Wimseys ' country house, Talboys ( in Hertfordshire ), taking her two children, along with the three children of her sister-in-law, Lady Mary, and Peter's venerable old housekeeper, Mrs. Trapp.

Separating the old and new parts, and situated right by a pedestrian crossing connecting them, is a venerable oak tree, the Whitnash Oak, which could easily be 500 years old or more.

When the young Schuon talked with him, the venerable old man drew a circle with radii on the ground and explained: God is in the center ; all paths lead to Him.

It comprises four short wave transmitters two are Thomson which originally came from Adventist Radio in Guam the others are a venerable Harris transmitter and a 30 year old RCA transmitter all feeding several stacked curtain arrays which are beamed on South East Asia.

Tradition also states that a buffalo led the Emperor Fasilides to a pool beside the Angereb, where an " old and venerable hermit " told the Emperor he would locate his capital there.

The land chosen was then occupied by the Dames de Berlaymont, a 300 year old convent which managed a venerable girls ' school.

Even the polyphonic music that arose from the venerable old chants in the Organa by Léonin and Pérotin in Paris ( 1160 – 1240 ) ended in monophonic chant and in later traditions new composition styles were practised in juxtaposition ( or co-habitation ) with monophonic chant.

These shall be put to death ; he who kills trees of venerable appearance ; who shoot arrows at night at old men and women ; he who enters the houses of the headmen without permission ; he who kills a shark or a streaked cayman.

The venerable old Blue Mouse Theatre, built in 1923, is the oldest continuously operating movie theater in Washington State and is open seven days a week.

The Lotus 17 was Chapman's answer to the Lola Mk 1, which by late 1958, was beating the venerable ( but by then a good few years old ) Eleven with monotonous regularity.

In such an environment the word ' old ' has a special significance, denoting something venerable, sacred, powerful and full of wisdom ( Alisjahbana 1961: 13-14 ).