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Example sentences for "five books"

  • Another more voluminous but less trustworthy historian was Valerius Antias, who wrote annals in at least seventy-five books.

  • The Exempla, in five books, was a history of Roman manners and customs.

  • Raymund compiled this work in three years, in five books, commonly called the Decretals, which the same pope Gregory confirmed in 1234.

  • Fables+, in five Books, written in iambic senarii, like those of Terence and Publius Syrus.

  • The +Astronomica+ in five Books of hexameter verse.

  • The most important of extant treatises of this kind are those of Irenæus in five books Adv.

  • In prison he finished his work in five books which he undertook jointly with Eusebius, the Apology for Origen, to which Eusebius independently added a sixth book.

  • What knowledge has the world of the first thirty-five books of Dio's Roman History?

  • The last twenty books, Sixty-one to Eighty, appear in fairly reliable excerpts and epitomes, but for the first thirty-five books we are dependent upon the merest scraps and fragments.

  • To the Beginning of the Second Samnite War (Five Books): Book III, B.

  • To the Beginning of the Second Punic War (Five Books): Book VIII, B.

  • Their authorship is traditionally ascribed to Moses,[750] and in consequence the "Five Books of Moses" is another commonly used designation.

  • They might easily be compressed into less than two ordinary octavo pages, though the work itself extended to five books.

  • The Expositions of Papias, in five books, and the Ecclesiastical History of Hegesippus, likewise in five books, must have been full of important matter bearing on our subject.

  • He wrote a history of the world(Chronografiai, in five books) from the creation to the year A.

  • He wrote "An Exposition of the Oracles of the Lord," in five books.

  • It denotes, therefore, the collection of five books; or, the five books of the law considered as a whole.

  • The De finibus bonorum et malorum, in five books, was composed in 45 B.

  • His work extended from the first mythical stories to his own day, and reached to at least seventy-five books.

  • The Brahmana of the Talavakaras, which for the most part is still unpublished, seems to consist of five books.

  • The careful investigations of Professor Jacobi have shown that the Ramayana originally consisted of five books only (ii.

  • Instead of seventy translations of fifty books, there was one translation of five books.

  • His poem, the Astronomica, in its present form, consists of five Books of hexameter verse: probably a sixth Book has been lost.

  • Amores, at first in five Books, but in a second edition reduced to three; cf.

  • The whole collection had then a different title descriptive of this design; and it was only after a part became detached from the rest that that part was called, for distinction’s sake, the Pancha Tantra, or Five Books.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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