Transferred from the 6th of January to the 25th of December by Julius I. (337-352). Old Christmas Day. January 6th. When Gregory XIII. reformed the Calendar in 1582, he omitted ten days;…
No quarter. In a tract entitled The Office of the Constable and Mareschall in the Tyme of Werre (contained in the Black Book of the Admiralty), one of the chapters is, “The peyne of hym…
The die is cast. The step is taken, and I cannot draw back. So said Julius Caesar when he crossed the Rubicon. I have set my life upon the cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.…
A military cry to general massacre without quarter. This cry was forbidden in the ninth year of Richard II. on pain of death. Probably it was originally used in hunting wild beasts, such…
(1 syl.). In the Roman calendar the 15th of March, May, July, and October, and the 13th of all the other months. (Latin and Etruscan, iduare, to divide. The middle of the month. Always…
is produced by multiplying together the lunar cycle, the solar cycle, and the Roman indiction. The first year of the Christian era corresponded to the year 4713 of the Julian, and…
The Grey League [lia grischa]. 15th century. So called from the grey homespun dress adopted by the leaguers. The Holy League. Several leagues are so denominated. The three following are…
Darkness. The gloomy cavern underground through which the Shades had to walk in their passage to Hades. “A valley of the shadow of death.” Not Erebus itself were dim enough To hide thee…
Epilepsy, in which the patient falls suddenly to the ground. “Brutus.—He[i.e. Cæsar] hath the falling-sickness.” Cassius. “No, Cæsar hath it not: but you, and I, And honest Casca, we…
Cicero was so entitled by the Roman senate. They offered the same title to Marius, but he refused to accept it. Several of the Cæsars were so called—Julius, after quelling the insurrection…
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