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To appease the furious king the court astronomer, Conon, announced that the offering had so pleased the goddess that she had placed it in the sky.
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appease and king
* To appease a pretender to the throne without giving him the title of king ( e. g. Eirik, the brother of king Sverre ).
The Northumbrians did indeed appease the English king in this way and paid compensation.
The king's regent, prince Charles Albert, acting while the king Charles Felix was away, approved a new constitution to appease the revolutionaries, but when the king returned he disavowed the constitution and requested assistance from the Holy Alliance.
The Northumbrians preferred to appease the English king, renounced Eirik and paid compensation.
In response to the message, the Lords proposed eight alterations to the petition and the modification of the imprisonment clause to appease the king.
Walter offered his property to the king to appease him.
The bishops had to intervene again in order to appease the king and the dukes.
Such indications were met with attempts to appease the god and find manageable ways by which the god ’ s expression could be realised without significant harm to the king and his nation.
The king tried to appease him with the Order of Saint Stanislaus on 14 July that year, but that failed to bring Potocki to his side.
As an apology to the town King Charles ordered two of his captains to be hanged, this did not appease the town and some time later a baggage train of the king was captured and delivered to Warwick.
appease and court
Although the court ruled in the Ashkenazim's favour, Zoref nevertheless had to appease the Arab instigators with annual bribes in order to allow building to continue.
To appease growing international criticism, the Japanese government " recalled Miura and placed him under a staged trial at the Hiroshima District Court, while the military personnel involved were tried at a military court.
This was a move made to appease clay court players unhappy with the traditional seeding system, which weighs grass court results over those of other surfaces.
appease and announced
On December 2, 2008, General Motors announced that it was considering eliminating numerous brands, including Pontiac, in order to appease Congress in hope of receiving a 25 billion dollar loan.
appease and offering
One could appease the elves by offering them a treat ( preferably butter ) placed into an elven mill – perhaps a custom with roots in the Old Norse álfablót.
In times of drought or flooding, it was customary for the local gentry and government officials to lead the community in offering sacrifices and conducting other religious rites to appease the dragon, either to ask for rain or a cessation thereof.
After the revolt was crushed, David held out an olive branch to Amasa ( in a likely effort to appease and reunite Judah with the other 10 tribes of Israel ) by offering to appoint Amasa as his new army commander ().
Victims were typically ritually killed in a manner that was supposed to please or appease gods, spirits or the deceased, for example as a propitiatory offering, or as a retainer sacrifice when the King's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in the next life.
* When Agamemnon tried to appease Achilles's wrath so that he would fight again, by offering him many gifts, Nestor appointed three envoys to meet Achilles ( Book IX ).
For offering and austerity, sacrifice and suffering, are equally calculated to appease an offended deity's wrath or win his goodwill.
As Liu Bei leads a large army to attack Sun Quan to avenge Guan Yu, Sun attempts to appease Liu by offering him the return of Jing Province.
Houses each fly a small white flag on the roof indicating the owner has made his offering payments to appease the local god.
In times of drought or flooding, it was customary for the local gentry and government officials to lead the community in offering sacrifices and conducting other religious rites to appease the dragon, either to ask for rain or a cessation thereof.
Boeun, literally " offering gratitude " or " thanksgiving ", was named in 1406 by a remorseful King Taejong, who felt relieved that he had cleared his conscience after having participated at a ceremonial ritual at the local Beopjusa temple to appease the spirits of his dead younger half-brothers.
Yoshida questions Angel about her loyalty, and she attempts to appease Yoshida by offering her body to him.
Shamans will also try to appease gods through incantations, beating drums and offering sacrifices.
However, General Patrick not wanting to alienate the new and up and coming Congressman ( who was also a member of the House Military Affairs Committee ) sought to appease Hill by offering to create an observation squadron at Maxwell Field.
He also tried to appease his opposition by offering Laurentius the Diocese of Nuceria, in Campania.
He once said that if Jesus was just a man dying on a cross, then Christianity would be immoral, offering a picture of a vindictive God along with the image of a pagan human attempt to appease God through human sacrifice — a form of self-justification.
Lhatoo was charged with laying a " yangu " offering on the summit by the Bhutanese King in order to " appease " mountain deities-apparently a pot containing gold, silver and precious stones.
It is a peace offering meant to appease the gods in order not to anger them.
" I know that there are transgressors, who, if they knew themselves and the only condition upon which they can obtain forgiveness, would beg of their brethren to shed their blood, that the smoke might ascend to God as an offering to appease the wrath that is kindled against them, and that the law might have its course.
The people had their own folk practices, such as peikkuk kotuttal ( offering to demons ) or cetikkuk kotuttal ( offering to evil spirits ), to appease the evil spirits.
Rabbits in Australia are seen as pests ; to better appease the Australian public, Haigh's began offering a chocolate Easter Bilby in 1993 as an alternative to the popular Easter Bunny.
appease and had
It may have been to appease Oswald that Penda had Eadfrith, a captured son of Edwin ( and thus a dynastic rival of Oswald ), killed, although it is also possible that Penda had his own motives for the killing.
Congress removed Jefferson's assertion that Britain had forced slavery on the colonies, in order to moderate the document and appease persons in Britain who supported the Revolution.
The material of the rather explicit novel had to be considerably toned down to appease the censors of the time.
A prophet named Calchas told him that in order to appease Artemis, Agamemnon would have to sacrifice the most precious thing that had come to his possession in the year he killed the sacred deer.
It was Calchas who prophesied that in order to gain a favourable wind to deploy the Greek ships mustered in Aulis on their way to Troy, Agamemnon would need to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigeneia, to appease Artemis, whom Agamemnon had offended ; the episode was related at length in the lost Cypria, of the Epic Cycle.
To appease the church and other enemies of the project, the authorities had officially banned the enterprise, but they turned a blind eye to its continued existence.
King Guy chastised Raynald in an attempt to appease Saladin, but Raynald replied that he was lord of his own lands and that he had made no peace with Saladin.
" Claudius believes this means that his secret memoirs will be one day found, and that he, having therein written the truth, will speak clearly, while his contemporaries, who had to distort their histories in order to appease the ruling family, will seem like stammerers.
However, in order to appease some of the citizens, they allowed some of the Shang beneficiaries to continue governing the small Kingdoms in which they had been governing but in compliance with the Zhou rules and regulations.
Farouk had hoped that his abdication would appease the revolutionaries and other anti-royalist forces, and that his son could serve as a unifying force for the country.
Third, as the public was unsatisfied with the plague of corruption and cronyism, with resentment and discontent mounting to a degree that could wreak havoc on the CCP's reign, the CCP had to take some measures to appease these strong feelings.
The Council had completed a recount of 10 % percent of the overall votes in order to appease the citizens of Iran.
It was later revealed by Stuart Proffitt, the editor who had worked on the book for HarperCollins, that this intervention was designed to appease the Chinese authorities-of whom the book was critical-as Murdoch intended to extend his business empire into China and did not wish to cause problems there by allowing the book to be published.
In Greek mythology, Iphigenia was offered as a human sacrifice to appease the wrath of the goddess Artemis, who had becalmed the Achaean fleet at Aulis at the beginning of the Trojan War.
* avoiding any statement whether Christ had one or two natures, in an attempt to appease both Non-Chalcedonian and Chalcedonian Orthodox Christians.
Sun Quan attempted to appease Liu Bei and he had Fan Qiang and Zhang Da bound and sent to Liu.
Church historian Matthias Schuler, commenting on Boniface's failure to have church property returned to the church, proposes that the time was not yet ripe for Carloman to re-appropriate those properties, which had often been handed ( by way of church offices ) to various noblemen by his father, Charles Martel, to appease them and strengthen their loyalty.
He had severed relations with the Polish government-in-exile in London in 1943 in the aftermath of the Katyn Massacre, but to appease Roosevelt and Churchill he agreed at Yalta that a coalition government would be formed.
The myth of origin of this ancient festival, according to Ovid, who derives Lemuria from a supposed Remuria was that it had been instituted by Romulus to appease the spirit of Remus ( Ovid, Fasti, V. 421ff ; Porphyrius ).
He had severed relations with the Polish government-in-exile in London in 1943, but to appease Roosevelt and Churchill he agreed at Yalta that a coalition government would be formed.
To appease those who might have been angry and had overthrown Yang Jun, Sima Liang also widely promoted those who participated in the plot, and more than a thousand men were created marquesses.
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