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It could also be applied to protect a person who was declared sacrosanct . Those who harmed a sacrosanct person became sacer (accursed) through the declaration sacer esto! ("Let him be accursed"). The offender was considered as having harmed the gods or a god, as well as the sacrosanct person and therefore accursed to the gods or a god.
He admits his lower status in relation to the god, "who set your power about Chryse and Killa the sacrosanct, who are lord in strength over Tenedos" (Iliad, I, 451–3). Similar is Achilles' prayer to Zeus. Achilles holds a ritual, purifies himself, pours wine to his god, addresses Zeus in words of commendation and admits the nobler nature of ...
Don Juan by Lord Byron (1824), an example of a "mock" epic in that it parodies the epic style of the author's predecessors [12] Camões by Almeida Garrett (1825), narrating the last years and deeds of Luís de Camões; Dona Branca by Almeida Garrett (1826), the fantastic tale of the forbidden love between Portuguese princess Branca and Moorish ...
Communicatio in sacris; Ex opere operato; Omnium in mentem; Validity and liceity; Sacraments. Holy Orders. Impediment (Catholic canon law) Abstemius; Defect of birth
Pani Twardowska, poem by Adam Mickiewicz, in Polish folklore and literature, is a sorcerer who made a deal with the devil. [38] [39] Comic books. Baron Mordo, story line in Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #5. [40] the Black Panther, story line in Black Panther (1988) #3. [40] Cynthia von Doom, Mephisto helped Cynthia get revenge against ...
A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter.Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales, [1] and generally considered to have been perfected by John Dryden and Alexander Pope in the Restoration Age and ...
Being sacrosanct, no person could harm the tribunes or interfere with their activities. To do so, or to disregard the veto of a tribune, was punishable by death, and the tribunes could order the death of persons who violated their sacrosanctity. This could be used as a protection when a tribune needed to arrest someone.
The first notice in Jewish literature of the codex in contradistinction to the scroll occurs in 3:6, [18] a passage which is to be translated as follows: "Only in a codex [may the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings be combined]; in a scroll the Torah and the Prophets must be kept separate"; while the following section describes a scroll of ...