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Festus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Festus (Sextus Pompeius Festus), fl. some time between AD 100 and 400, Roman lexicographer; his surviving work, On the...primary source for Roman scholarship and Roman antiquities. Paul the Deacon abridged Pompeius Festus' work.
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Porcius Festus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Porcius Festus see Festus, Porcius .
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Derriman, Festus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Derriman, Festus, a character in Hardy's The Trumpet Major .
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Trumpet Major, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...rival in his brother Bob, a lighthearted sailor. Her third suitor is the boorish yeoman Festus Derriman. The story ends with the discomfiture of Festus and the success of Bob's courtship, while John marches off with his dragoons, to die on...
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Bailey, Philip James
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Philip James (1816–1902), author of the long poem Festus (1839; enlarged 1845; final edition 1889). The final edition...World , 1850; The Mystic , 1855; Universal Hymn , 1867). Festus is Bailey's own version of the legend of Goethe's Faust...
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Saint Paul
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...hearings before the council of priests, before the Roman procurator Felix and his successor Festus, before Herod Agrippa II, and again before Festus, he appealed to Rome on his citizen's right. So he was sent to Rome under guard. (Acts...
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Botswana
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies
...until 1980. Quett Masire took office upon the death of President Khama and remained president until 1998, when he resigned. Festus Mogae of the Botswana Democratic Party was elected president in 1998. Political opposition parties question the government...
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Plautus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...questionable details. From Cicero the date of Plautus's birth can be placed about 254 B.C. and his death about 184 B.C. Festus, scholar of the 2d century A.D., gives Plautus's birthplace as the small town of Sarsina in Umbria, Italy. From Aulus...
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John Work Garrett
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...amp; Ohio Railroad (1928). Both of these popular works have been replaced by scholarly monographs for selected topics: Festus P. Summers, The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the Civil War (1939), and Robert V. Bruce, 1877: Year of Violence (1959...
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Marcus Verrius Flaccus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...works, only one, his treatise De verborum significatu [on the meaning of words], survives, in an abridgment by Sextus Pompeius Festus . This work is a source of information about Latin grammar and Roman literature, customs, and myths.
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