A woman at this time, as Ælian expressed it, is in regular communication with the starry bodies.
Lucretius, marched out of the Nævian gate with some companies of soldiers; Valerius himself led some chosen cohorts down from the Cœlian mount, and they were first descried by the enemy.
The Cœlian mount is added to the city, and in order that it might be inhabited more populously, Tullus selects that situation for his palace and there took up his abode.
But when they saw that he was in volis forpreni lian semon kaj earnest, they got in a rage,[4] detrui ĝin.
FN#38] The colossal tortoise is noticed by Ælian (De Nat.
The great Saladin refused to embrace or protect the Ismaëlian doctrine, and announced his intention of destroying it.
I questioned him upon the true system of Ismaëlian belief: he explained it to me clearly, and I very soon penetrated all the depths of it.
I have told you, sir, that the irruption of Holagon into Persia, and the expeditions of Biban into Syria, ruined the Ismaëlian power.
It was to this spot the Ismaëlian princes caused to be transported, from time to time, the young men of whom they meant to make the blind instruments of their will.
Aristotle and Ælian were aware of the existence of this faculty in some of the fishes of the Mediterranean.
The story of antipathy between the elephant and rhinoceros is probably borrowed from ÆLIAN de Nat.
For an account of the training and performances of the elephants at Rome, as narrated by ÆLIAN see the appendix to this chapter.
The compression of the tail noticed by Ælian is one of the principal characteristics of these reptiles, as their motion through the water is mainly effected by its aid, coupled with the undulating movement of the rest of the body.
The annexed drawing[2] may probably represent the creature to which the informants of Ælian referred.
What insect was meant by this name it is not now easy to determine, but ÆLIAN intimates that the dogfly both inflicts a wound and emits a booming sound, in both of which particulars it accords with the mosquito (lib.
Footnote 1: ÆLIAN tells a story of a ship in the Black Sea, the bottom of which was penetrated by the sword of a Xiphias (L.
The fire had begun at the Circus Maximus, in the part which touches the Palatine and the Cælian Hill, but extended with incomprehensible rapidity and seized the whole centre of the city.
The motto had previously been misread as ~tou lian potho~ which was interpreted "by the desire of the extreme.
On his cap is a label inscribed ~iou lian potho~, which being literally interpreted means "Alas, I desire too much!
The Aventine and the Cœlian are, in large part, not built upon.
Gillius de Vi et Natura Animalium is little else than a compilation from Ælian and other ancient authors, though Niceron says that the author has interspersed some observations of his own.
Dibdin, to which no exception will probably be taken:-- Ælian 1545.
A little eastward of the Palatine, and seen over its shoulder, as surveyed from the tower of the Capitol, is the CÆLIAN Mount.
Over the furrowed and ragged summits of the Cælian and Esquiline mounts were seen the early snows, glittering on the peaks of the Volscian and Sabine range.
We leave these midnight vaults, and tread again the narrow lava-paved Appian road; and through rural lanes we seek the summit of the Cælian mount, where stands in statued pomp the church of St John Lateran.
His church, on the Cælian Hill, was built on the site of the monastery founded by him.
On the same morning the feast of St. Gregory, Pope and Doctor of the church, is celebrated at his church on the Cælian Hill.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
