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  • 1Ionians (The) — The Ionians Malcolm Schofield THALES AND OTHERS The Greeks agreed that philosophy had begun with Thales. However they did not know much about his views.1 What survives is mostly a potent legend. Herodotus tells stories of his practical ingenuity …

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  • 2Ernle — was the surname of an English gentry or landed family descended from the lords of the manor of Earnley in Sussex who derived their surname from the place where their estates lay. Origins OnomasticOnomasticians say that the surname s origin, in… …

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  • 3Origen — This article is about the 3rd century theologian. For other uses, see Origen (disambiguation). Origen Era Ante Nicene Fathers Born 184/5 Probably Alexandria, Egypt …

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  • 4Tibullus — Albius Tibullus (ca. 54 19 BC) was a Latin poet and writer of elegies.Little is known about his life. His first and second books of poetry are extant; many other texts attributed to Tibullus are of questionable origins. There are only a few… …

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  • 5Apocryphal — A*poc ry*phal, a. 1. Pertaining to the Apocrypha. [1913 Webster] 2. Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. [1913 Webster] The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious …

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  • 6Grattius — Grattius, Roman poet, of the age of Augustus, was the author of Cynegetica , a poem on hunting, of which 541 hexameters remain.He may have been a native of Falerii, and is sometimes referred to as Grattius Faliscus , but this rests on the… …

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  • 7Cratinus — (Greek Κρᾰτῖνος, 519 BC 422 BC), Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy. Contents 1 Life 2 Works 2.1 Pytine 2.1.1 Plot …

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  • 8John Markham — Sir John Markham (d. 1479) was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King’s BenchOriginsMarkham was the son of John Markham, a judge of the Common Pleas, by either his first or second wife. Francis Markham, in his manuscript History of the… …

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  • 9Bayeux tapestry — /bay yooh , bah /; Fr. /bann yue / a strip of embroidered linen 231 ft. (70 m) long and 20 in. (50 cm) wide, depicting the Norman conquest of England and dating from c1100. [after Bayeux, France, the town in which it was made] * * * Medieval… …

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  • 10Tibullus, Albius — ▪ Roman poet born c. 55 BC died c. 19 BC       Roman poet, the second in the classical sequence of great Latin writers of elegiacs that begins with Cornelius Gallus and continues through Tibullus and Sextus Propertius to Ovid. Quintilian… …

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