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The Oxford English Dictionary is updated every three months, and September's revamp marks the centenary of the birth of children's book author Roald Dahl. Dictionary adds 'YOLO,' 'Splendiferous ...
The motto Splendor sine occasu, is Latin and refers to the idea of the sun never setting over the British Empire. Occasus (the form occasu is the ablative, required after the preposition sine) literally means a "setting" or a "going down", such as of the sun, and by extension can refer to "the west". While one can translate the phrase to mean ...
S.-G. Pimont argued for the authorship of Ambrose of Milan. [1] The Benedictine editors and Luigi Biraghi disagreed. [2]The hymn is found in a hymnary in Irish script (described by Clemens Blume in his Cursus, etc.) of the eighth or early ninth century; but the classical prosody of its two stanzas (solita in the third line of the original text is the only exception) suggests a much earlier origin.
Aglaea (/ ə ˈ ɡ l iː ə /) or Aglaia (/ ə ˈ ɡ l aɪ ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἀγλαΐα means 'splendor, brilliant, shining one' [citation needed]) is the name of several figures in Greek mythology: [1] Aglaea, one of the three Charites. Aglaea or Ocalea, daughter of Mantineus. She married Abas and had twins: Acrisius and Proetus. [2]
Magnificence regained its ancient splendor as an aspect of works of architecture and art. The rediscovery of ancient rhetoric and the pre-eminence given to Vitruvius throughout the Renaissance influenced not only patrons’ tastes but also those of the architects and artists who were commissioned to create magnificent masterpieces that would ...
Linguee is an online bilingual concordance that provides an online dictionary for a number of language pairs, including many bilingual sentence pairs. As a translation aid, Linguee differs from machine translation services like Babel Fish, and is more similar in function to a translation memory.
Translation Notes saltus in demonstrando: leap in explaining: a leap in logic, by which a necessary part of an equation is omitted. salus in arduis: a stronghold (or refuge) in difficulties: a Roman Silver Age maxim. Also the school motto of Wellingborough School. salus populi suprema lex esto: the welfare of the people is to be the highest law
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