Word: pius
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...comparatively late date, and come mainly from Liny, Strabo and Pausanias. Sulla plundered it in 87 B. C., to get money to pay his soldiers, and the temple never entirely recovered from his raid, although in the second century of our era enjoyed the favor of Antoninus Pius, who built baths within its precincts. After that the darkness of the middle ages settled upon Epidauros, and we do not hear of it again until the latter part of the last century, when it was visited first by Richard Chandler, and afterwards by many travelers both English and French. All agreed...
...Thomas Dwight, Parkman professor of anatomy has been made a member of the Philosophea-Medicae Society of Rome, the diploma being issued by President J. M. Cornoldi, S. J. This society was founded by Dr. Travaglini, with the sanction of the late Pope Pius IV., and is intended for the advancement of the sciences and philosophy. It ranks among its members, some of the leading scientific men and philosophers of Europe...
...Sweden, was added to the Library. It contained most of the literary treasures captured by her father, Gastavus Adolphus, at Prague, Wortzburg and Bremen. In 1745, the library of the Ottobuoni family was added, comprising 3,862 manuscripts. In 1815, after peace with Prussia had been made, Pope Pius VII. restored many of the manuscripts taken from Heidelberg. The whole number of Greek, Latin and Oriental manuseripts now in the Library is 23,580, being the finest collection in the world. It also contains 30,000 beoks. among the large number of manuscript treasures which the Library contains the "Codex...