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    Isidore of Seville (Latin: Isidorus Hispalensis; c. 560 – 4 April 636) was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Seville. He is widely...
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    letter writer Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636), Catholic saint and scholar, last of the Fathers of the Church and Archbishop of Seville Isidore the Laborer...
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    was the encyclopedist Isidore of Seville. Leander, Isidore and their siblings belonged to an elite family of Hispano-Roman stock of Carthago Spartaria (Cartagena)...
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    bishop Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636) towards the end of his life. Isidore was encouraged to write the book by his friend Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa...
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    verso : Beast of burden (Iumentum) (Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XII, i, 7) Folio 5 verso : Herd (Armentum) (Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae,...
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    fall of Rome, Isidore of Seville set about compiling much of Classical knowledge in his Etymologiae (c. 620 CE). In the chapter on winds, Isidore provided...
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    with the death of St. Isidore of Seville (d. c. 636) and in the East with the death of St. John of Damascus (d. c. 750). The writings of the Fathers have...
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    that they execute their war-fighting duty as justly as possible. Isidore of Seville writes: Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without cause....
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  • BC. 1512 BC—The flood of Deucalion, according to Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Augustine of Hippo, Eusebius, and Isidore of Seville Moses v t e 1512 Installed...
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    7th-century scholar Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636) in his De Natura Rerum and later his Etymologiae (c. 625) A later manuscript added the names of Noah's sons...
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  • mouth. — Revelation 2:14–16 NRSV The last Western Church Father was Isidore of Seville, who finished the Etymologies, in AD 636. In Book VIII titled "The...
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    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 94, 3 (Philadelphia, 2004), pp. 49–50. Isidore of Seville (2010). "XIV ii 1". The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville...
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    of Green Bay. Retrieved 2023-10-25. Isidore, Bishop of Seville (July 2006). The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville (PDF). Translated by Lewis, W. J.; Beach...
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    the outcome of this Frankish invasion; for instance, Isidore of Seville writes that the future king Theudigisel, who was then a general of Theudis, had...
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    like Isidore of Seville, do not specify a hand. Today many western countries follow a tradition of placing wedding rings on the fourth finger of the right...
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    contours. Isidore of Seville noted an association between the retiarius with Neptune, the god of water, and the secutor with Vulcan, the god of fire. He...
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  • ascetic Isidore of Pelusium (d. c. 450), monk from Roman Egypt Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636), scholar and Archbishop of Seville, Spain Isidore the Laborer...
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    authenticated". Later during the Early Middle Ages, the story was retold by Isidore of Seville (c. 560 AD – c. 636 AD) in Etymologiae (XVI.16.6), De vitro, which...
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    OCLC 279232201. Isidore of Seville (2006). Barney, Stephen A.; Lewis, W.J.; Beach, J.A. (eds.). The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. Cambridge, UK:...
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    source of information on the Roman world, and especially Roman art, Roman technology and Roman engineering. The Spanish scholar Isidore of Seville was the...
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    232 Isidore of Seville, Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum, chapter 37. Translation by Guido Donini and Gordon B. Ford, Isidore of Seville's...
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    Epiphanius, Justin Martyr, Origen, Diodorus of Tarsus, Isidore of Alexandria, Isidore of Seville, Eutychius of Alexandria, John Malalas, George Syncellus...
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  • author of the Origo gentis romanae notes that many sources said that Faunus was the same as Silvanus, the god Inuus, and even Pan. Isidore of Seville identifies...
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    itself in this struggle of nature against its own self. Isidore of Seville defined the basilisk as the king of snakes because of its killing glare and poisonous...
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    Consolation of Philosophy. W. V. Cooper (trans.). New York: The Modern Library, Random House. Isidore of Seville (2010). The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. Translated...
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    ants of India may have contaminated griffin lore. In the Christian era, Isidore of Seville (7th century AD) wrote that griffins were a great enemy of horses...
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    sources may care to let us believe." Collins argues that the account of Isidore of Seville may be colored by the hostility subsequent Visigothic kings had...
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    and gained a variety of new associations; Herodotus, Lucan, Pliny the Elder, Pope Clement I, Lactantius, Ovid, and Isidore of Seville are among those who...
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    in the size of the Mediterranean Sea and all of Europe which had the effect of increasing the size of the earth. Bishop Isidore of Seville (560–636) taught...
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