Word: diocletian
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...because every man either tills his ground or, if he has none to till, emigrates. So it has been in San Marino years without end. No progress, no need of progress, no desire to change the round of peaceful toil which began when St. Marinus fled the persecutions of Diocletian (A. D. 284-305), and founded a colony of refugees which has become the Republic of San Marino...
...from Sinai, and there are times when he suggests that Alice has wandered, round-eyed and innocent, into the Wonderland of Westminster. . . . The truth is that Mr. Baldwin is unintelligible to the politician because he is the least politically minded person who has ever reached great office. . . . Like Diocletian, he would be happier among his cabbages than in Parliament...
...Traditionally founded by St. Marinus as a Christian refuge from the persecution of Diocletian, A. D. 284-305. †Area, 38 sq. mi. Frontier length, 24 mi. Population, 12,027 (1920). San Marino has a treaty of friendship with Italy, and extradition treaties with Britain, the Netherlands...
...Restoration of Conquests and the Early Roman Empire"; January 30. "The Enlightened Monarchy of the Second Century, A. D.;" February 1, "The Cities, Industry and Commerce"; February 6, "The Country, Agriculture and Landholding"; February 8, "The Crisis of the Third Century, A. D."; February 13. "The Restoration of Diocletian and the Reforms of Constantine. The Beginnings of the Byzantium Slave State": and February 15, "The Question of the Decline of Ancient Civilization...
...Haskins of the University of Wisconsin has been called to Harvard to be professor of history in the University in 1902-1903. Professor Haskins is perhaps the greatest of the younger historians of today. He will give courses on the history of Rome to the reign of Diocletian, the history of mediaeval institutions and the introduction to the sources of mediaeval history...