Word: ancient
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...Latin authors, including Cicero, Tacitus, Plautus and Lucretius. All the discoveries of this century, however, were but a small percentage of the amount of classical literature handed down through the Middle Ages. During the same period Cyriacus of Ancona was engaged in the work of exploring the ancient monuments and transcribing their Latin inscriptions. Fra Giacondo, while similarly occupied made drawings of many of the monuments. Amerigo Vespucci and Columbus were the discoverers of the latter part of this age, and the inspiration of Columbus may be traced partially at least to Ptolemy and Dante...
...Lyman Abbott, editor of Outlook," will deliver an address upon "The Democracy of the Ancient Hebrews" this evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Shepard Room of Phillips Brooks House, under the auspices of the Christian Association...
...CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. "The Democracy of the Ancient Hebrews," Dr. Lyman Abbott. Shepard Room, Phillips Brooks House...
...early attracted by Latin and Greek literature. He especially admired Livy and Tacitus, whom he frequently quoted in his epistles. His most famous work is a "Follo on Mythology," the earliest book on the subject. As with Petrarch, Boccaccio's greatest service to literature was his preservation of ancient manuscripts...
Professor W. M. Davis will lead a party to Syracuse, New York, during the first three days of the recess, to inspect the glacial marginal channels known as the "Ancient Niagaras...