Although to some extent looked down upon by the senate as following a dishonourable occupation, they had as a rule sided with the latter, as being at least less hostile to them than the democratic party.
It was, however, for the splendid international position attained by the house of Coburg under him that his reign is chiefly distinguished.
Gracchus ordered that the taxes, direct and indirect, should be increased, and that the farming of them should be put up to auction at Rome.
Apparently Gracchus at first proposed to create new senators from the equites and to select the jurymen from this mixed body, but this moderate proposal was rejected in favour of one more radical (see W.
The bishop consented and promised a small pension; and in August 1495 Erasmus entered the "domus pauperum" of the college of Montaigu, which was then under the somewhat rigid rule of the reformer Jan Standonck.
He loved the arts and sciences, wrote several religious works, and was one of the chief compilers of the Trophaeum Domus Inclytae Estoratianae.
Domitian rebuilt the "domus Augustana," injured by fire, adding to its accommodations a stadium for gymnastic sports.
Caligula filled with new structures the whole space between the "domus Tiberiana" and the Roman forum.
Such we may suppose to have been the "domus regia," whence the saint walked out in a very bad humour to the river Ness, from the pebbles of which he selected one white stone, to be turned to an important use.
Domus eleemosynaria nobilis paupertatis" is the style of the Hospital of Saint Cross near Winchester, as enlarged by Cardinal Beaufort.
It afterwards became an imperial residence, and a portion of it being given by Maximianus to his daughter Fausta, second wife of Constantine, received the name of "Domus Faustæ.
Debet sua cuique domus esse perfugium tutissimum, says the law, which your legislators have taken so much pains first to decry, then to repeal.
Even now it seems to justify its boastful inscription: Ut Rosa flos florum, sic est Domus ista Domorum.
The freedom enjoyed by the Church under Caracalla is proved by the graffiti of the Domus Gelotiana, described in my "Ancient Rome.
They had absolutely no kingly authority, but did whatever the Major Domus of the Franks desired.
And after speaking of Melphi, William Appulus adds, Pro numero comitum bis sex statuere plateas, Atque domus comitum totidem fabricantur in urbe.
At the first pause they presented them in the natural order: Domus Lescinia At the second Ades Incolumis At the third Omnis es lucida At the fourth Mane Sidus Loci At the fifth Sis Columna Dei At the last I, scande Solium.
There appeared on the stage thirteen dancers, dressed as youthful warriors; each held in his hand a shield, on which was engraved in characters of gold, one of the thirteen letters which compose the two words 'Domus Lescinia.
The Prior wrote a letter to the Abbot of Osney, recommending the lad to his favourable notice, and asking for him a place in the Domus Dei, should no better lodging be obtainable.
All this Leofric and Jack had been told with more or less of detail, and already Leofric was resolved against settling himself upon Osney Island, in the Domus Dei there.
The Domus Dei is open to such as thou, and any son who comes from my good friend the Prior of St. Michael will be welcome for his sake.
But I shall have no need to ask for shelter in the Domus Dei, seeing how well we be sheltered here.
Once was I the guest of the Abbot of Osney, and I remember visiting the Domus Dei, and seeing the portions of meat sent thither from the refectory.
So wilt thou learn the more, and enjoy life as thou couldst not do cooped up on yon damp island in the Domus Dei?
I would not go to Osney, or live in the Domus Dei there," he said.
The Canonico Tonarelli writes in a letter from Parma, that in an estimate in the archives of the Chapter, dated 1354, the Fabbriceria was denominatedDomus laborerii seu fabricae .
But Nero moved only when fire had seized the "domus transitoria," and he hurried so as not to miss the moment in which the conflagration should be at its highest.
But if it is a question of the ruin of something as great, for example, as the domus transitoria, would it be worth while for us to bring offerings to avert that ruin?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "domus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
