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    Sextus Pompeius Festus, usually known simply as Festus, was a Roman grammarian who probably flourished in the later 2nd century AD, perhaps at Narbo (Narbonne)...
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  • Sextus Pompeius may refer to: Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, or Sextus Pompey, (67–35 BC), Roman general Sextus Pompeius Festus (fl. 2nd century AD), Roman...
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  • up festus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Festus may refer to: Porcius Festus, Roman governor of Judea from approximately 58 to 62 AD Sextus Pompeius...
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    of Pompeius Strabo. Sextus Pompeius Cn. f., father of Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, married Lucilia, sister of the poet Gaius Lucilius. Sextus Pompeius Sex...
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  • Martinianus Sextus Tigidius Perennis Sextus Pompeius (younger son of Pompey the Great) Sextus Pompeius (relatives of Pompey the Great) Sextus Pompeius Festus (latter...
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    Lexicon of Festus, is an epitome compiled, edited, and annotated by Sextus Pompeius Festus from the encyclopedic works of Verrius Flaccus. Festus' epitome...
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    spelling in the word poploe (i.e. "poploi" = populī "people") in Sextus Pompeius Festus. The dative/ablative/locative plural -eis comes from earlier -ois...
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  • Roman religion. One covered a gate to Hades, abode of the dead; Sextus Pompeius Festus called it ostium Orci, "the gate of Orcus". The other was used to...
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  • gaudio parentum; quoted in Paulus Diaconus, abridged summary of Sextus Pompeius Festus, De Verborum Significatu Cp. e.g. RE XVI 1668, pp. 14ff; Frederic...
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  • patrician nobles" in the comitia mentioned by the lexicologist Sextus Pompeius Festus. If this view is correct, it implies that the cavalry was exclusively...
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    republic that the chief magistrates were first called praetor. For example, Festus "refers to 'the praetors, who are now consuls'". The form of the republic...
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    ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5. Hobler, Francis (1860). Records of Roman history, from Cnaeus Pompeius to Tiberius Constantinus, as exhibited on the Roman coins. London: John...
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    (Hackett, 2006), p. 31. Compare Gradiva. The second-century grammarian Sextus Pompeius Festus offers two other explanations in addition. The name, he says, might...
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  • 20. Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen, Römische Forschungen. Sextus Pompeius Festus, epitome of Marcus Verrius Flaccus, De Verborum Significatu. Marcus...
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    Columella Cornelius Nepos Ennius Eutropius Fabius Pictor Sextus Pompeius Festus Rufus Festus Florus Frontinus Fronto Fulgentius Gellius Horace Hydatius...
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  • given to children born out of wedlock. This was the opinion of Sextus Pompeius Festus, which is accepted by Chase, perhaps surprisingly considering the...
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    Propertius (redirect from Propertius Sextus)
    of his own writing. His praenomen "Sextus" is mentioned by Aelius Donatus, a few manuscripts list him as "Sextus Propertius", but the rest of his name...
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  • vi. 20. Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft. Sextus Pompeius Festus, epitome of Marcus Verrius Flaccus, De Verborum Significatu, s.v...
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    Cappadocia throne. Then in 90 BC to Lucius Julius Caesar, in 84 BC to Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, in 60 BC to Gaius Julius Caesar, relative of the previously mentioned...
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    culture, cena or coena was the main meal of the day. The grammarian, Sextus Pompeius Festus, preserved in his De verborum significatione that in earlier times...
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    "Wasteland: A journey through the American cloaca". Harper's Magazine. Sextus Pompeius Festus. De verborum significatu. 432L. Marcus Terentius Varro. Lingua Latina...
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    transformations of hags is offered as one possible explanation, and Sextus Pompeius Festus (fl. late 2nd century) glossed as "women who practice witchcraft"...
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  • Meditrinalia with such a goddess was of the 2nd century grammarian Sextus Pompeius Festus, on the basis of which Meditrina is asserted by modern sources to...
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  • Roman Empire, eventually falling out of use. The Roman scholar Sextus Pompeius Festus believed that Manius was derived from mane, "the morning", and therefore...
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    source for the later works of Aurelius Victor, Cassiodorus, Eutropius, Festus, Florus, Granius Licinianus and Orosius. Julius Obsequens used Livy, or...
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    meaning 'oak'. In his entry on the Querquetulanae, the grammarian Sextus Pompeius Festus says that their name was thought to signify that they were nymphs...
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    Columella Cornelius Nepos Ennius Eutropius Fabius Pictor Sextus Pompeius Festus Rufus Festus Florus Frontinus Fronto Fulgentius Gellius Horace Hydatius...
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    Columella Cornelius Nepos Ennius Eutropius Fabius Pictor Sextus Pompeius Festus Rufus Festus Florus Frontinus Fronto Fulgentius Gellius Horace Hydatius...
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