Word: symmachus
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...Lord Vansittart who wrote, but he was quoting not himself but Velleius Paterculus, a 1st-Century Roman historian. He added similar testimony from Tacitus, Seneca, Symmachus, Claudian, Nazarius, Ammianus Marcellinus, Ennodius, Quintilian and Josephus. This battery of authorities punctuates Vansittart's latest book on Germany: Bones of Contention (Knopf; $2.75), which was published in Britain last March and appears in the U.S. this week...
...Warner asserts that it is the business of schools to teach a love of the good literature which is the fruitage of the world's thought. The "Turn of the Tide" is signed by the initials of Harriet Waters Preston and "L. D." It relates to the life of Symmachus, and the final triumph of worldly christianity over paganism. Mr. Hannis Taylor, in a paper on the growing inefficiency of the House of Representatives as a legislative body, advocates the seating of the cabinet in Congress. "Babes in the Wood" is one of Olive Thorne Miller's bird articles. Agnes...
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