Word: numidian
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...essentially he can find his own way to heaven. Augustine's writings were crucial in labeling Pelagius a heretic. Still, the bishops needed some temporal muscle to run the heretics into exile. Accordingly, these churchmen who believed in the deep corruptibility of man sent some 80 fine Numidian stallions to bribe key cavalry officers into support of their cause...
...energies of his life to correcting and im proving the Latin texts of the Old and New Testaments in Rome and Bethlehem, later translated the Bible into its most enduring edition, the Latin Vulgate. He was an ex travagant polemicist, once characterized dark-skinned St. Augustine as "a little Numidian ant." After Alaric's sack of Rome in 404, Jerome laid aside his pen for refugee work...
...that time they called lack of money." Together these uncommonly good fellows rollicked and rioted over land and sea, playing havoc with solemn industrious citizenry, making mock of bump tious clergy and royalty. Pantagruel's father, Gargantua, had set the pace, rid ing into battle upon a Numidian mare whose tail was so long that by whisking it a few times she knocked down a forest. During the battle, Captain Tripet, enemy, gives up four potsful of soup
...snake drums of Numidian cavalry. (Page 13, column...
...snake drums of Numidian cavalry...