While this was probably just folk etymology made popular by Pliny the Elder, it was well known by the time the term came into common use.

While no indubitably attributable sculpture by Praxiteles is extant, numerous copies of his works have survived ; several authors, including Pliny the Elder, wrote of his works ; and coins engraved with silhouettes of his various famous statuary types from the period still exist.

While ancient Greek historians, including Herodotus, Strabo, and Pliny the Elder, referred to Legoi people who inhabited Caucasian Albania, Arab historians of 9-10th centuries mention the kingdom of Lakz in present-day southern Dagestan.

While Pliny may have been the primary source, scholars have identified others ; among them are Caesar's Gallic Wars, Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, Posidonius, Aufidius Bassus, and numerous non-literary sources: presumably based on interviews with traders and soldiers who had ventured beyond the Rhine and Danube borders, and Germanic mercenaries in Rome.

While Poseidonius's accounts have not survived, the writings of these tertiary sources do: Vitruvius Pollio ( a contemporary of Caesar Augustus ), Pliny the Elder ( d. 79 AD ), and Seneca the Younger ( d. 65 AD ).

While other Roman writers of the time, such as Cicero, Suetonius, Lucan, Tacitus and Pliny the Elder, described human sacrifice among the Celts, only Caesar and the geographer Strabo mention the wicker man as one of many ways the Druids of Gaul performed sacrifices.

While Rhinocolura ( a variant of Rhinocorura ) in the writings of Pliny and Josephus apparently refers to El-Arish, archaeologists have found no evidence of occupation at the site prior to the Hellenistic period suggesting that this was not identical to the locality Rhinocorura mentioned by Strabo and Diodorus Siculus which had been settled by Ethiopians.

While Councilman Olson cited the anticipated increase in school costs in answer to a direct question from a taxpayer, the impact upon a school system does not have to be measured only in increased taxes to find alarm in uncontrolled growth.

While some regression is inevitable, it is discouraged rather than encouraged so that the transference does not follow the stages of planned regression associated with certain casework adaptations of the psychoanalytic model for insight therapy.

While the `` empirical psychoanalytic '' label which Fromm claims sheds no light on the validity of his underlying philosophy, it does increase the marketability of his product.

While casuistry makes use of ethical theory, it does not view ethical theory as the most important feature of moral reasoning.

While it does not bias the OLS coefficient estimates, the standard errors tend to be underestimated ( and the t-scores overestimated ) when the autocorrelations of the errors at low lags are positive.

While this does bear some similarity with the classic posture of cowboys firing their twin revolvers from the hip, in games this posture is almost never reflected, with almost all game characters firing twin guns at shoulder level, straight-armed.

While bone is essentially brittle, it does have a significant degree of elasticity, contributed chiefly by collagen.

While this may not be a direct adaptation, it does resemble the scene with the hostage situation in Batman: Year One, only replacing James Gordon with Harvey Dent ( Aaron Eckhart ).

While central registries are kept in some countries which aid in proving claims of ownership, registering does not necessarily prove ownership, nor does the fact of copying ( even without permission ) necessarily prove that copyright was infringed.

While the government doesn't restrict foreign land ownership, it does strongly enforce its immigration laws.

While not a national holiday, it does appear on all printed calendars, much as Father's Day does in the West.

While most of these testimonies represent ailments neither diagnosed nor treated by medical professionals, the Church does require three other people to vouch for any testimony published in its official organ, the Christian Science Journal.

While God does not change, our perception of God does, and so, Jews are open to new experiences of God's presence.

While the constitution does not expressly state that these agreements are allowed, and constitutional scholars such as Laurence Tribe think they're unconstitutional, the U. S. Supreme Court has upheld their validity.

While the common chimpanzee is mostly herbivorous, it does eat honey, soil, insects, birds and their eggs, and small to medium-sized mammals, including other primates.

While Duck Hunt does not have a traditional multiplayer mode, the manual states that a second player may plug in a standard NES controller in the other controller port and control the duck that appears.

While the Russian Orthodox Church does recognize the first seven ecumenical councils as valid, some Russian Orthodox theologians believe that the infallibility of these councils ' statements derived from their acceptance by the faithful ( and thus from the infallibility of all believers ), and not from the acts of the councils themselves.

While Eiffel does not allow direct access to the features of a class by a client of the class, it does allow for the definition of an " assigner command ", such as:

While the equation is definitely superior to the ideal gas law and does predict the formation of a liquid phase, the agreement with experimental data is limited for conditions where the liquid forms.

While in the case of 1 Corinthians, the love ' does not ' statements like boasting remind one of the criticisms of the Corinthians earlier in the book, Colossians is different.

While based on Lindy Hop, it does have clear distinctions.

While not explicitly rejecting mentalité history, younger historians increasingly turned to other approaches.

While the original IPA did not explicitly mark unaspirated consonants, the revised Extensions to the IPA marks them with a superscript equals sign "=", ( e. g., ).

While it is the core text on laws of the religion, it is not the exclusive source of laws in the religion, nor of Bahá ' u ' lláh's own writings, and complimentarily the reader is told explicitly to not view the text as a " mere code of laws ".

While Diophantus is concerned largely with rational solutions, he assumes some results on integer numbers ; in particular, he seems to assume that every integer is the sum of four squares, though he never states as much explicitly.

While bands such as Hawkwind maintained an explicitly psychedelic course into the 1970s, most dropped the psychedelic elements in favour of wider experimentation.

While the U. S. Supreme Court majority in 1896 Plessy explicitly upheld only " separate but equal " facilities ( specifically, transportation facilities ), Justice John Marshall Harlan in his dissent protested that the decision was an expression of white supremacy ; he predicted that segregation would " stimulate aggressions … upon the admitted rights of colored citizens ," " arouse race hate " and " perpetuate a feeling of distrust between races.

While not explicitly stated in the series, Chakotay's official biography on the official Star Trek website also states that he was Ro Laren's instructor at Advanced Tactical Training.

While spacetime can be viewed as a consequence of Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, it was first explicitly proposed mathematically by one of his teachers, the mathematician Hermann Minkowski, in a 1908 essay building on and extending Einstein's work.

While Guy Debord was critical of and distanced himself from Surrealism, others, such as Asger Jorn, were explicitly using Surrealist techniques and methods.

While the First Amendment does not explicitly set restrictions on freedom of speech, other declarations of rights sometimes do so.

While it did not override earlier restrictions on the ownership of guns for hunting, it was written to preserve the hunting rights of the landed aristocracy and is subject to the parliamentary right to implicitly or explicitly repeal earlier enactments.

While not a treaty itself, the Declaration was explicitly adopted for the purpose of defining the meaning of the words " fundamental freedoms " and " human rights " appearing in the United Nations Charter, which is binding on all member states.

While the Universal House of Justice is authorized to change or repeal its own legislation as conditions change, it cannot dissolve or change any of the laws which are explicitly written in the sacred texts.

While the energy of ejected electrons reflected Planck's constant, the existence of photons was not explicitly proven until the discovery of the photon antibunching effect, of which a modern experiment can be performed in undergraduate-level labs.

While clarifying the concept of world has arguably always been among the basic tasks of Western philosophy, this theme appears to have been raised explicitly only at the start of the twentieth century and has been the subject of continuous debate.

While the direct usage of Servlets to generate HTML ( as shown in the example below ) has become rare, the higher level MVC web framework in Java EE ( JSF ) still explicitly uses the Servlet technology for the low level request / response handling via the FacesServlet.

While the formula was named after De Moivre, he never explicitly stated it in his works.

While Section 106 does not mandate explicitly that any federal agency director accept the advice of the ACHP, their advice has practical influence, especially given the statutory obligations of the NHPA that require federal agencies to " take into account the effect of the undertaking.

< http :// www. jstor. org / stable / 25111383 >.</ ref > While Caesar's empirical objective can be considered strictly political, however, Cleopatra's is explicitly erotic ; she conquers carnally — indeed, " she made great Caesar lay his sword to bed ;/ He plough'd her, and she cropp'd " ( 2. 2. 232-233 ).

While Chen did not explicitly reject Lee's two states theory, he did not explicitly endorse it either.

While the Iliad never explicitly stated as such, in later Greek writings, such as Plato's Symposium, the relationship between Patroclus and Achilles is held up as a model of romantic love.

While Norman explicitly denied this album was autobiographical in the accompanying lyric songbook, many years later some critics challenged this claim, arguing " Norman was struggling through his own divorce and identity crisis at the time ".

" While the Kabbalah story arc, and the positive explanations of Moore's philosophy, very explicitly explain, talking-head style, the symbolism behind the details of every plane of existence, Promethea also contains critiques of materialism which are much more subtle.

While all of the other black people in her row complied, Parks refused, and was arrested for failing to obey the driver's seat assignments, as city ordinances did not explicitly mandate segregation but did give the bus driver authority to assign seats.