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Example sentences for "classical writers"

  • According to classical writers, the Celts were drunken race, and besides importing quantities of wine, they made their own native drinks, e.

  • If he is the Belinus referred to by Geoffrey of Monmouth,[64] his cult must have extended into Britain from the Continent, and he is often mentioned by classical writers, while much later Ausonius speaks of his priest in Gaul.

  • The Celtic Apollo is referred to by classical writers.

  • Not in Plautus, once in Terence, and rare in classical writers.

  • In the traditions preserved by classical writers, there are references to the skill and cunning of the Phoenicians in commerce, and in the exploitation of colonies founded among the ignorant Iberians.

  • That a regular over-seas trade-route was in existence is indicated by the references made by classical writers to the Cassiterides (Tin Islands).

  • The Hebrides may well have been the OEstrymnides of Himilco and the Cassiterides of classical writers.

  • The Celtic Character* The moral no less than the physical characteristics attributed by classical writers to the Celtic peoples show a remarkable distinctness and consistency.

  • In Spain and Portugal eight names terminating in dunum are mentioned by classical writers.

  • Yet from these, and from the accounts of classical writers, much can be deduced with certainty, and much more can be conjectured with a very fair measure of probability.

  • The proper names occurring in classical writers, on inscriptions and coins, have been collected by A.

  • Of personal names mentioned by classical writers we have Calgacus and Argentocoxus, both of which are certainly Celtic.

  • The documents which seemed at one time to prove the existence of a last king of Assyria named Esarhaddon, identical with the Saracos of classical writers, really belong to Esarhaddon, the father of Assur-bani-pal.

  • It is not an uncommon word either in the LXX or in classical writers.

  • The aorist is found also in Classical writers, where a similar contrast is involved; e.

  • Neither in classical writers nor in the LXX has the word any shade of this meaning.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    classical antiquity; classical authors; classical culture; classical education; classical learning; classical literature; classical studies; each bearing; extensively used; glass plates; good neighbour; hollow square; just previous; limited monarchy; little before; look around; moral certainty; more accurate; northwest passage; ruined castle; shall surely; travelling companion; warm reception; wave after; what course; while his