Word: licinius
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...with commoner themes to which Rubens gave a new stature: landscape and still life. His idea of a battle piece was a knot of turbulent figures and horses, locked together into one impacted mass by an undulating, centripetal rush of line, as in the magnificent Battle of Constantine and Licinius(1622) (see color...
Many long years ago lived Blasius, physician and bishop of Sebaste in Armenia. In his old age, during the persecutions of Emperor Licinius, Blasius retired to a cave where he made friends with lions, leopards, bears and wolves. One day the emperor's huntsmen found him, dragged him away from his pets. On his way to trial Blasius cured a small boy who was choking on a fish bone. He also made a wolf return a pig it had stolen from an old woman. When Blasius was flung into a dungeon to starve, the woman gratefully brought...
...inflation, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg dramatically presented him with a 100,000,000,000-mark note which he explained was now worth 2½?. To shame gold-greedy Republicans, Louisiana's Long dipped into Roman history and plucked out as a horrible example Triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 B. C.). According to Senator Long, opulent Crassus, after bleeding the citizenry of Rome of all its gold, was put to death by having the molten metal poured down his throat...
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