Very similar tanning materials to divi-divi are cascalote, indigenous to Mexico, and algarobilla (caesalpinia brevifolia) which grows in Chili.
Oakwood and quebracho extracts, and divi-divi or algarobilla.
If this tendency to fermentation and oxidation of the colouring matter could be checked completely, divi-divi would be a valuable material, as it makes a firm leather of good colour.
DIVI-DIVI (caesalpinia coriaria) is the dried pods of a Central American tree.
It also seems to be beyond all doubt that the divi parentum of the Romans, like their dii hospitales, were nothing but personified curses.
He was born at Aquinum, a town of the Volscians, where he held the offices of duumvir quinquennalis and of flamen Divi Vespasiani.
As regards municipal relations, Pliny held the post of flamen divi Augusti, according to the inscription which the corporation of Vercellae erected to him at his own town (C.
The inscription above quoted (divi Vespasiani shows that its date is after A.
Annales, or rather Ab excessu divi Augusti, the title given by MS.
The Annals, ab excessu divi Augusti, in sixteen books, treated the history of the Empire until the extinction of the Claudian dynasty.
It appears also, from trials made, that one part of divi-divi is sufficient for tanning as much leather as four parts of bark, and the process occupies but one-third of the time.
Divi-divi resembles a dried pea-shuck curled up, filled with yellow powder, and a few dark brown seeds.
DIVI-DIVI is the commercial name for the curved pod of a leguminous shrub, Cæsalpinia coriaria, which is sometimes imported from Carthage.
Specimens of divi-divi which had been raised at Calcutta were shown in the Indian department of the Great Exhibition.
The Domitilla after whom the catacombs were named was a niece of Vespasian, Divi Vespasiani neptis.
Domitian must have restored the building, because the rear wall of the temple, the murus post templum divi Augusti ad Minervam, is mentioned in contemporary documents as the place on which state notices were posted.
From that year they were hung "in muro post templum divi ad Minervam," that is, behind the modern church of S.
The Virgin Mary was worshipped in the Templum divi Augusti, in the place of the deified founder of the empire; and also in the Basilica Julia, the northern vestibule of which was transformed into the church of S.
From the palace at the northeast corner of the Palatine, he crossed the roof of the templum divi Augusti, then the fastigium basilicæ Juliæ, and lastly the Temple of Saturn close to the Capitolium.
I have mentioned this bridge because the words of Suetonius, supra templum divi Augusti ponte transmisso, gave me the first clew towards the identification of the splendid ruins which tower just behind the church of S.
The divi parentum are here generally taken as those of the particular family, and this may have been so; but cf.
The latter fragment is the oldest reference to the event which we possess, and just sufficient to confirm Livy's account: "Divi hoc audite parumper, ut pro Romano populo prognariter armis certando prudens animum de corpore mitto.
The engravings inDivi Britannici, noticed under the variations of 35, nearly approach these.
The two smaller salvers and the cup are inscribed as follows:-- In usum Templi Divi Johannis in Antigua Gulielmus Jones Parochialis hujus olim Rector Donum Dedit.
The Greek and Latin libraries stood to the right and left of the small court between the Basilica Ulpia and the Templum Divi Trajani, the centre of which was marked by the existing Column.
After noting that America had been called the fourth part of the world he adds, "Modo vero per novissimas navigationes, factas anno post Christum 1519 per Magellanum ducem navium invictissimi Caesaris divi Caroli etc.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "divi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
