Pyrrho of Elis, who was perhaps a cotemporary of Aristotle, was the head of the old Sceptics.
He was born at Colophon; emigrated to Elea, a Phocian colony in Lucania, and was a younger cotemporary of Pythagoras.
Among the few sources of light which we have upon this subject, are the mention made in Plato's Phaedon of the Pythagorean Philolaus and his doctrines, and the writings of Archytas, a cotemporary of Plato.
His period was subsequent to that of Xenophanes, though partially cotemporary with that of Parmenides.
He was an indefatigable collector, and made himself useful to his cotemporary antiquaries in the completion of their works.
He was the cotemporary for ten years of Peregrine White, the first born child of English parents in America.
An old thatched barn near by is said to be a cotemporary of the mansion in its earliest days.
He stood, therefore, in the relation of cousin to the cotemporary head of the Butler family.
The mother of Flan was the daughter of Dungal, Prince of Ossory, so that to the cotemporary lords of that borderland the monarch stood in the relation of cousin.
Does this fossil Flora correspond to a formation almost entirely marine, but cotemporary with the Wealdean epoch?
Considered as a whole, the vegetables of this period, cotemporary with all the Tertiary deposits, and continued even in the vegetation which now covers the earth's surface, is one of the best characterised.
The men-at-arms marched to the field of battle in squadrons so dense that, as a cotemporary writer records, "a glove thrown into the midst of them would not have reached the ground.
Their presence in battle and siege is proved, not only by the direct testimony of cotemporary writers, but by the prohibitions that from time to time were issued against the practice.
The equipment of the Scandinavian heroes in the twelfth century has come down to us in several cotemporary writings.
But the best account that can be offered of the Siege operations of this time, is furnished by a cotemporary writer, the Seneschal of Carcassone; himself the commander of the defending forces.
Besides the ordinary knightly sword of the thirteenth century, the size of which is authenticated by many existing monuments, we have the evidence of cotemporary writers that swords of differing sizes were employed by different nations.
His death and burial (in 1226) are recorded in the curious cotemporary manuscript of William de Wanda, the dean; which is still preserved in the Bishop's Records at Sarum.
The bowed kite-shield is very distinctly shewn in many cotemporary monuments: in Cotton MS.
Another cotemporary Diarist goes to the root of the evil:--"Had some conversation with Tierney, who looked serious and down.
I cannot help suspecting," observes an intelligent cotemporary "that his Majesty's late journeys to see his kingdoms of Ireland and Hanover will not on the whole redound much to his honour or advantage.
A recollection of Mr. Huskisson by another politicalcotemporary of eminence, may here be put forward by way of contrast to the preceding.
A cotemporary writer of Palestine tells us that the patriarch was a very handsome person, and, in consequence of his beauty, the mother of the king of Jerusalem fell in love with him, and made him archbishop of Caesarea.
The generous expenditure of the Templars at this place," says a cotemporary historian, "renders them truly worthy of the liberality and largesses of the faithful.
He was, moreover, abundantly ugly, and past the meridian of life, as attested by all cotemporary writers of any authority.
But that her countenance possessed in a pre-eminent degree the something which constitutes beauty, is sufficiently attested by the unanimous declaration of all cotemporary writers.
This testimony in Mary's favour, from a cotemporary author of so much respectability, is worth volumes of ordinary panegyrick.
With regard to the asseverations of cotemporary writers, as to the effects which Mary's beauty produced, many of them are almost too extravagant to be believed.
It was painted when Mary was in France, by an Italian artist of eminence, who flourished as her cotemporary in the sixteenth century, and whose name is on the canvas.
Beyond any doubt the Life does actually contradict itself; it makes Declan a cotemporary of Patrick in the fifth century and a cotemporary likewise of St. David a century later.
He had not that sense of outdoor nature, empirical and not scientific, which endows the Angler of his cotemporary Walton, with its enduring charm, and which is to be acquired only by living in the open country in childhood.
He was some years at school at Harrow, where he was the cotemporary of the present Duke of Devonshire, Lord Byron, and Sir Robert Peel.
They were both of that chosen class who are disciplined in pain, that they may learn that it is a prevailing evil, and are stimulated to free not only themselves, but their wholecotemporary kindred.
The recommendations of Mayfield have been thus enumerated by a cotemporary writer in a periodical.
Of hiscotemporary authors Hogg speaks in his life with the highest honor.
There is still another kind of cotemporary history, which does not even propose to relate history at all; but is for that very reason entirely removed from the suspicion of making a false statement.
There is no history so trustworthy as that prepared by cotemporary writers, especially by those who have themselves been actively engaged in the events which they relate.
This is the general verdict of the cotemporary chronicler, on reviewing the circumstances which led to Mr. Pitt’s resumption of office in May, 1804.
DIXON thinks that anecdotes and allusions to so conspicuous a person may occur in the cotemporary letters and memoirs of France, Germany, Italy, &c.
He was a cotemporary of Sclater of Pitminster, and died at Ottenden in Kent about the same time; but it is doubtful whether they were relations.
Remmius Palaemon appears to have been cotemporary with Pliny and Quintilian, who speak highly of him.
His cotemporary and friend, Rutilius Rufus, having been a military tribune under Scipio in the Numantine war, wrote a history of it.
Cotemporary annalists record the extraordinary frenzy aggravated, as it was, by the proceedings against the Templars, the signal of witch persecutions throughout France.
By all the German tribes, on the testimony of cotemporary writers, women were held in high respect, and were believed to have something even divine in their mental or spiritual faculties.
In the middle of the square is seen an obelisk, which is perhaps the most ancient monument in the world--an obelisk cotemporary with the Trojan war!
So strongly do our eyes carry conviction to the mind, that after having beheld these ruins of Rome we believe the history of the ancient Romans as if we had been cotemporary with them.
Bliss to the Athenæ Oxonienses, is the following cotemporary narrative, copied from a MS.
There is a pretty copse or bosquet, at the end of his garden, in which the present proprietor has erected two paltry monuments, to the memory of Voltaire and his cotemporary Rousseau.
The passage is taken from the prophet Micah, who was a cotemporary with Jeremiah, and prophesied under the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cotemporary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
