Word: quintus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...useless has it proved to be, trying to give Omar a black eye? He is an educated man of the world, somewhat like Quintus Horatius Flaccus, good company, urbane, witty, tolerant... If the noble vintage of his petry ever made adipsomaniac or his indulgent smile ever broke up a marriage, that news has yet to come in over the teletype...
...John Paul Jones ("boldness, not caution, wins") to Sherman and Patton. Yet in every war they have fought, Americans have also shown great patience, which of course is a form of courage. For all their dash, U.S. generals appreciate slow, painstaking preparation and careful strategy in the tradition of Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator ("The Delayer"). After Pearl Harbor, when Admiral Chester Nimitz was rebuilding the US. Navy, he invariably fended off action-hungry critics with the Hawaiian phrase Hoomana wa nui (Be patient...
After the reign of Augustus (27 B.C. to A.D. 14), brick pillars were built on the mosaic floors to support a building on a higher level. Earth packed between the brickwork and the walls saved the decorations. But before the walls disappeared, an irreverent person named Quintus, perhaps a bricklayer, scratched his name on the dead emperor's frescoes...