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Sabines
Sabines , ancient people of central Italy, centered principally in the Sabine Hills, NE of Rome. Not much dependable information on them can be gathered. They were probably Oscan-speaking and therefore may be classed among the Sabelli. From the earliest days there was a Sabine element in Rome (the s... Read more
Sabine
Sabine , river, c.575 mi (925 km) long, rising on the prairies NE of Dallas, Tex. It flows SE across Texas, then south to mark the Texas-Louisiana line. Near its mouth it broadens to form Sabine Lake (c.17 mi/27 km long; c.7 mi/11.3 km wide), then goes through Sabine Pass to the Gulf of Mexico. The ... Read more
Albert Bruce Sabin
Albert Bruce Sabin , 1906-93, American physician and microbiologist, b. Bialystock, Russia, grad. New York Univ. (B.S., 1928; M.D., 1931). He emigrated to the United States in 1921 and was naturalized in 1930. He conducted medical research for several organizations before joining (1939) the faculty ... Read more
Quirinus
Quirinus , in Roman religion, an early god, possibly of war. Worshiped originally by the Sabines, he was one of the chief gods of ancient Rome, associated with Jupiter and Mars. In the late republic he was identified with Romulus, legendary founder of Rome. ... Read more
Port Arthur
Port Arthur city (1990 pop. 58,724), Jefferson co., SE Tex., on Sabine Lake; inc. 1898. A deepwater port of entry on the Sabine-Neches Canal, it is an extensive oil port, with many large refineries, chemical plants, and oil rigs and ships. There is natural-gas processing, printing and publishing, a... Read more
Tarpeia
Tarpeia , in Roman legend, a Roman woman who betrayed her city to the Sabines for what they wore on their left arms (their gold bracelets). As they entered Rome they crushed her under a mound of shields, which they also wore on their left arms. The Tarpeian rock at Rome, from which criminals were th... Read more
Romulus
Romulus , in Roman legend, founder of Rome. When Amulius usurped the throne of his brother Numitor, king of Alba Longa , he forced Numitor's daughter, Rhea Silvia, to become a vestal virgin so that she would bear no children. However, she became the mother of twin sons, Romulus and Remus, by the go... Read more
Sir Robert Filmer
Sir Robert Filmer d. 1653, English royalist political writer, author of Patriarcha; or, The Natural Power of Kings (pub. posthumously in 1680), a defense of the divine right of monarchs by an exposition of the patriarchal theory of the origin of government. He attacked Hobbes's contractual theory... Read more
William Vaughn Moody
William Vaughn Moody 1869-1910, American poet and dramatist, b. Spencer, Ind., grad. Harvard, 1893. After writing several verse dramas, Moody achieved wide success with the prose play The Great Divide (produced as A Sabine Woman, 1906). The Faith Healer (1909), however, also written in prose,... Read more
Giovanni Bologna
Giovanni Bologna or Giambologna , 1524-1608, Flemish sculptor, whose real name was Jean Bologne or Boulogne. Though born in Douai, France, he trained in Flanders. He is identified chiefly with the Italian Renaissance as one of its greatest sculptors. He lived briefly in Rome before moving to Flo... Read more

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Sabines
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Sabines , ancient people of central Italy, centered...involved in numerous wars with the inland Sabines; Horatius is supposed to have defeated...Curius Dentatus conquered them in 290 BC The Sabines became (268) Roman citizens. The Samnites...
Giovanni da Bologna
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...of his style throughout Europe. Late Works The Rape of the Sabines (1582) in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, is another of...the Rape of Helen or perhaps of Proserpine or even one of the Sabines. The subject was chosen to give scope to the science and accomplishment...
tribe
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition tribe [Lat., tribus : the tripartite division of Romans into Latins, Sabines, and Etruscans], a social group bound by common ancestry and ties of consanguinity and affinity; a common language and territory...
Tarpeia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Tarpeia , in Roman legend, a Roman woman who betrayed her city to the Sabines for what they wore on their left arms (their gold bracelets). As they entered Rome they crushed her under a mound of shields...
Sabelli
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...group and seemed to have had little or no political unity. Oscan-speaking tribes expanded over central Italy, and by the 5th cent. BC they seem to have taken ancient Campania and Lucania. The Samnites and Sabines were probably Sabelli.
Quirinus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Quirinus , in Roman religion, an early god, possibly of war. Worshiped originally by the Sabines, he was one of the chief gods of ancient Rome, associated with Jupiter and Mars. In the late republic he was identified with Romulus, legendary founder of Rome.
Fermo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Adriatic Sea. Leather and cotton goods are manufactured, and it has a noted bronze foundry. An ancient town founded by the Sabines, Fermo was held by the papacy from the mid-16th cent. to 1860. Of note are pre-Roman walls, Roman ruins, and a 13th...
Jacques-Louis David
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...more than ever the embodiment of neoclassical theory, was again static and deadened in feeling. The Battle of the Romans and Sabines (1799; Louvre) portrayed the battle through the use of physically frozen figures. During the Bourbon Restoration David...
Rome (Ancient Religion & Magic)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...its tale of the race that conceived it. There are prehistoric nature deities, borrowed from indigenous tribes; gods of the Sabines, from whom the young colony stole its wives; gods of the Etruscans, and of the Egyptians, Greeks, and Persians. The temple...
Crooked Mirror, Theatre of the
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...including Evreinov , whose Fourth Wall , which ridiculed verismo opera , was produced there, as was Andreyev's The Pretty Sabines , a biting social satire. One of the theatre's most successful productions was Gogol's The Government Inspector shown...

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Sabines
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Sabines A tribe native to the foothills of the Apennines north-east of Rome. According to tradition they joined the earliest settlement...
Tarpeia
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...ancient Rome. According to legend she betrayed the citadel to the Sabines in return for whatever they wore on their arms, hoping to receive their golden bracelets; however, the Sabines killed her by throwing their shields on to her. Tarpeian Rock...
Sabine
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...and were incorporated into the Roman state in 290 bc. The Sabines were renowned in antiquity for their frugal and hardy character...Sabine Women reflects the early intermingling of Romans and Sabines; some Roman religious institutions were said to have a Sabine...
Romulus
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...his followers, Romulus is said to have invited the neighbouring Sabines to witness a spectacle; in the course of this, the Sabine women were carried off (the Rape of the Sabines ). The fighting which followed was eventually settled without...
Roman empire
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...empire. The city of Rome gradually gained power from the time of the Tarquins (6th century BC), subduing the Etruscans, Sabines, Samnites, and Greek settlers, and by the mid-3rd century BC, controlled Italy. It came into conflict with CARTHAGE...
Rape of the Sabine Women, the
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Rape of the Sabine Women, the in Roman mythology, the forcible carrying off of the Sabine women by Romulus , to provide wives for his men of the new settlement of Rome, at a spectacle to which the Sabines had been invited.

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Sabines festeja un estudio sobre lo sagrado de su poesía: 'me habían encajonado con cuestiones de cantinas, prostitutas, alcohol y muerte'. (Jaime Sabines, poeta mexicano)(TT: Sabines celebrates a study about the sacredness of his poetry: 'they had boxed me in with with questions of bars, prostitutes, alcohol, and death') (TA: Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 1/26/1997; ; 700+ words ; La poesía de Jaime Sabines en MéXico se lee, se disfruta, se crítica...Lo sagrado en la poesía de Jaime Sabines, de la crítica literaria Guadalupe Flores...Flores Liera dice que al estudiar a Sabines "siempre se me imponía el tema religioso", y asegura que el...
Jaime Sabines se salvó del empalago para insuflarle a su poesía algo de magia: Mario Benedetti.(México)(TT: Jaime Sabines put some magic in his poetry: Mario Benedetti.)(TA: Mexico)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 3/21/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...alguien o algunos enterados, que Jaime Sabines es un gran poeta. O cuando menos un buen...sueltos" titulado "El peatón", de Jaime Sabines, fallecido el 19 de marzo a siete días...lectores mexicanos selló los poemas de Sabines. De esa conexión popular que generó...
Entrevista / Jaime Sabines / Preparan traduccionde Sabines al arabe.(El Angel)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 3/21/2004; 700+ words ; ...maneja en su poesa, la obra de Jaime Sabines se sita tanto en Mxico como en el mundo...ha entablado relacin con la familia Sabines. "Encuentro su obra muy prxima a la...proyecto. - Cmo conoci la poesa de Jaime Sabines? En la primavera del 2001, hice un viaje...
La poesía de Sabines en la mirada de Nandino, Paz, García Ponce, Segovia, Pacheco y Huerta.(Jaime Sabines, escritor Mexicano)(TT: Sabines poetry according to Nandino, Paz, Garcia Ponce, Segovia, Pacheco and Huerta.)(TA: Jaime Sabines, Mexican writer)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 3/21/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Mansourse hizo amiga del poeta Jaime Sabines. Entonces reunía lo que se publicó en 1988 como Uno es el poeta. Jaime Sabines y sus críticos, libro cuyos 5 mil...reproduce lo que dicen sobre la poesía de Sabines, en distintos momentos poetas, por...
Jaime Sabines y su público.(TT: Jaime Sabines and his public.)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 3/21/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...de sus grandes contribuciones, Jaime Sabines le ha traído un público especial, estrictamente...autoconsumo". El poder de convocatoria de Sabines radica según creo en la voluntad de cercanía...Yo no lo sé de cierto, lo supongo. Sabines es un gran técnico y maneja numerosos...
Luis González y González: "Sabines, de mi generación, de mi predilección".(Luis González y González, historiador mexicano; Jaime Sabines, poeta mexicano)(TT: Luis Gonzalez y Gonzalez: "Sabines, from my generation, and of my predilection".)(TA: Luis Gonzalez y Gonzalez, Mexican historian; Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 4/25/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Abril, mes de homenajes para Jaime Sabines. El viernes 23 se le honró a nivel nacional...tiempos modernos. La poesía de Jaime Sabines llegará a ser más popular que la de Amado...cortada: "La muerte del poeta Jaime Sabines fue muy dura para mí, porque le tenía...
German Dehesa rinde homenaje al poeta Jaime Sabines
Newspaper article from: La Prensa San Diego; 6/23/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...rindi homenaje al poeta chiapaneco Jaime Sabines, la noche del lunes 19 de junio en el...la poesa y las ancdotas personales de Sabines que solo pueden ser contadas por el mismo...hombre" expres Dehesa, recordando que Sabines nunca se llam a s mismo un poeta, ya...
La Casa Jaime Sabines, organizada para ser modelo de todas las casas de cultura de la ciudad, sin presupuesto. (México Distrito Federal, México)(TT: Jaime Sabines' House, organized to be the model of all cultural houses of the city, without budget) (TA: Mexico City)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 6/7/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...particular vocación literaria, la Casa Jaime Sabines sufre las restricciones presupuestales...el marco del homenaje nacional a Jaime Sabines por sus 70 años--, García enuncia algunos...Oficialía Mayor, y un homenaje a Jaime Sabines. Además de los talleres literarios...
El turno de Jaime Sabines. (poeta mexicano)(TT: Jaime Sabines' turn) (TA: Mexican poet)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; El poeta Jaime Sabines ha hecho en la televisión unas declaraciones...sé cuáles fueron las declaraciones de Sabines, aunque las imagino, porque en una comida...enseñoreado sobre su tierra. El de Jaime Sabines no es un punto de vista doctoral sobre Chiapas...
Mexican Poet Sabines Dead at 72
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/19/1999; 404 words ; AP Online 03-19-1999 Mexican Poet Sabines Dead at 72 MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Jaime Sabines, considered to be among the top Spanish-language poets, died today at the age of 72. Sabines who had suffered from cancer, died at his home...