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    the islands. The name 'cursus' was suggested in 1723 by William Stukeley, the antiquarian, who compared the Stonehenge cursus to a Roman chariot-racing...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cursus honorum. Diagram of the cursus honorum Archived 2008-12-25 at the Wayback Machine Livius.org: Cursus honorum...
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    The Stonehenge Cursus (sometimes known as the Greater Cursus) is a large Neolithic cursus monument on Salisbury plain, near to Stonehenge in Wiltshire...
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  • Cursus (Latin: way): Cursus — a type of neolithic monuments on British islands Cursus or Cursus publicus — governmental transportation system in Ancient...
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    extent of the cursus publicus is shown in the Tabula Peutingeriana, a map of the Roman road network dating from around AD 400. The cursus publicus was...
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    The Dorset Cursus is a Neolithic cursus monument that spans across 10 km (6¼ miles) of the chalk downland of Cranborne Chase in east Dorset, United Kingdom...
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  • The Latin word 'cursus' can be generally translated into English as 'course'. The word derives from currere, to run. It may be applied, for example, to...
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    and exits. The terminal point of a cursus is an area that is either square or rounded in shape. The Newgrange cursus can be found approximately 100m east...
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    Cursus Barrows is the name given to a Neolithic and Bronze Age round barrow cemetery lying mostly south of the western end of the Stonehenge Cursus,...
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    in Latin, 81 tomes in 85 volumes Scripturae sacrae cursus completus, 25 volumes Theologia cursus completus, 25 volumes Démonstration évangeliques des...
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  • In cursu honorum (lit. 'in a course of honors') is a Latin phrase that refers to specialized study at the undergraduate level. Generally, a small percentage...
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  • The Patrologia Graeca (PG, or Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca) is an edited collection of writings by the Church Fathers and various secular...
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  • monuments in Troqueer parish. Curriestanes is an earthwork cursus. While familiar from cursus sites in England, these types of monuments are less common...
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    cursus honorum, the sequence of offices pursued by the Roman who chose to pursue a political career. When Lucius Cornelius Sulla regulated the cursus...
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  • Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus (c. 155 BC – c. 91 BC) was an ancient Roman statesman and general. He was a leader of the Optimates, the conservative...
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  • scholars (although apparently not to the medieval writers themselves) as cursūs. However, not all writers made use of them. The professors of the period...
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    Citizenship Auctoritas Imperium Status Litigation Government Curia Forum Cursus honorum Collegiality Emperor Legatus Dux Officium Praefectus Vicarius Vigintisexviri...
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  • Paris for most of his life. Only one work by Hérigone is known to exist: Cursus mathematicus, nova, brevi, et clara methodo demonstratus, per notas reales...
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    civilistischen Cursus I (1 ed.). Berlin: August Mylius. Hugo, Gustav (1798). Lehrbuch des Naturrechts (in German). Vol. Lehrbuch eines civilistischen Cursus II (1 ed...
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    Yorkshire, England. The site includes many large ancient structures including a cursus, henges, burial grounds and settlements. They are thought to have been part...
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    Citizenship Auctoritas Imperium Status Litigation Government Curia Forum Cursus honorum Collegiality Emperor Legatus Dux Officium Praefectus Vicarius Vigintisexviri...
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    tombs in the surrounding landscape. In approximately 3500 BC, a Stonehenge Cursus was built 2,300 feet (700 m) north of the site as the first farmers began...
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    Citizenship Auctoritas Imperium Status Litigation Government Curia Forum Cursus honorum Collegiality Emperor Legatus Dux Officium Praefectus Vicarius Vigintisexviri...
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    fulacht fiadh Causewayed enclosure Tor enclosure Circular enclosure Goseck Cursus Henge Thornborough Megalithic architectural elements Midden Oldest extant...
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    to the east. In 1674, Claude François Milliet Dechales described in his Cursus seu Mundus Mathematicus how the rotation of the Earth should cause a deflection...
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    Citizenship Auctoritas Imperium Status Litigation Government Curia Forum Cursus honorum Collegiality Emperor Legatus Dux Officium Praefectus Vicarius Vigintisexviri...
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    brother, Titus Flavius Sabinus, who had entered public life and pursued the cursus honorum, holding an important military command in the Danube. In preparation...
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    Citizenship Auctoritas Imperium Status Litigation Government Curia Forum Cursus honorum Collegiality Emperor Legatus Dux Officium Praefectus Vicarius Vigintisexviri...
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  • head Nationality Roman Occupation Statesman Known for Gang violence Office Cursus honorum up to praetor (including tribune of the plebs) Political party Optimates...
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