It is certain that he preferred old books to pounds sterling, for once he requested to commute a part of his pension for a copy of the "Decem Rhetores Graeci," which he could not purchase at Cambridge.
A tradition in the Stonor family still points at a tangled dell in the park where Campian wrote his "Decem Rationes," and had his books and his food conveyed to him.
The nave of Canterbury cathedral, of the erection of which by a French architect about 1176 we have a full account in Gervase (Twysden, Decem Scriptores, col.
After his death (some five years later) the son of Demochares proposed and obtained a decree (Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum, p.
Footnote 69: Decem libras; the word silver must be understood.
Commentarii in Porphyrii librum: in Aristotelis Praedicamentorum librum (or De decem generibus): in Aristotelis de Interpretatione libros duo: in libros Elenchorum.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decem" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
