Word: roman
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...thousand years ago in the piney fastness of the Teutoburg Forest, near where the city of Bielefeldr is today, an army of German tribesmen lay in wait for three Roman legions advancing from the Rhine. Led by the chieftain Arminius, the Germans ambushed the veteran legionaries and massacred them. Rome never again tried to extend its empire far beyond the Rhine. The Roman historian Tacitus called Arminius' ferocious style of warfare the furor Teutonicus: given to drinking and fighting, the Germans, he wrote, were tough, hardened warriors "fanatically loyal to their leaders." Concluded Tacitus: "Rest is unwelcome to the race...
...curious feature of the Salk plan raised considerable nonmedical controversy last week, when it became known that Roman Catholic nuns and priests had been asked to volunteer to test the Salk vaccine. Searching for volunteers, U.S.C. turned to Roger Mahony, the Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles. University officials explained that "persons with the lowest possible risk" of AIDS infection would be most desirable, and that those committed to celibacy would be ideal. Mahony thereupon sent a letter to all nuns and priests in the archdiocese, asking those 65 or older to consider signing up for Salk's shots. When...
David G. Mitten, Loeb professor of art and archaeology, has been excavating a Lydian and Greco-Roman site called Sardis in present-day Turkey...
...high point of our work there was about 27 years ago when we found a huge Roman synagogue from about the third or fourth or fifth century A.D.," says Mitten...
...winding plot, with its endless coincidences, cannot fail to confuse. Cymbeline plays out every cliche about lost heirs, wicked stepmothers, all-conquering love, attempted rape and absurd misunderstandings against the background of the Roman invasion of Britain...