Iumentum (iungo) always means an animal for drawing or carrying, a beast of burden: iumento nihil opus est, Att.
The following example shows it meaning a legal document: opus est intueri omne litis instrumentum; quod videre non est satis, perlegendum est, Quint.
The frequent mention made of birds' feathers may serve as a proof that they were used for embroidery, which in primitive times was more an 'opus plumarium' than embroidery proper, which is the forerunner of the art of painting.
Opus 26 collects nine songs, of which "Princess Pretty Eyes" is fascinatingly archaic.
In the lyrics in opus 56 and opus 58 MacDowell has turned song to the unusual purposes of a landscape impressionism of places and moods rather than people.
Of Foerster's piano compositions opus 11 is a "Valse Brillante," warm and melodious.
In opus 8, "A Prayer" is begun in D minor and ended in D major, with a strong effect of sudden exaltation from gloom.
Five songs are grouped into opus 12, and they reach a much higher finish and a better tendency to make excursions into other keys.
And then it goes on to declare that he treated as secondary, indeed as an opus supererogationis, the very thing which the Academy intended should occupy the first place, namely, the connection between Metaphysics and Ethics.
Moreover, self-love would be the sole duty regularly involving an opus supererogationis.
Phocian and the Locrian ofOpus have also forms like Aeolic in -[Greek: essi].
Hooker said that "in point of originality and far-reaching results [it] was its author's opus magnum.
Above it on the hillside is a theatre of opus reticulatum, less well preserved.
But to determine what these propositions are, is theopus magnum of the more recondite mental philosophy.
Cardan notices the attack in these words--"His diebus quidam conscripserat adversus nostrum de Subtilitate librum, Opus ingens.
A splendid specimen of opus Alexandrinum, the finest north of the Alps, exists in the presbytery of Westminster Abbey.
Then rising to his feet he gathered together the loose pages of his "Opus 47" and placed them tenderly in a leather case just as the door opened and Elkan and Yetta entered.
This time, however, he brushed aside the title page of his Opus 47 and spread out an evening paper to beguile the tedium of awaiting Benson's "prospects.
Milton had secured the leather portfolio containing his "Opus 47" they proceeded immediately to the elevator.
Around this base the Sullan improvements put a restraining wall of opus quadratum.
Martino is of opus quadratum, with the exception of a stretch of opus incertum[41] below and east of the Barberini gardens, and a small space where the city sewage has destroyed all vestige of a wall.
The basilica is built in oldopus quadratum of tufa, Not.
Two terraces higher, on the Cortina terrace, stretch out the ruins of a huge construction in opus incertum.
Footnote 41: This stretch of opus incertum is Sullan reconstruction when he made a western approach to the Porta Triumphalis to correspond to the one at the east on the arches.
Praeneste, thinks that all theopus quadratum walls were built as surrounding walls for the great sanctuary of Fortuna.
But the piece of restraining wall is still to be seen in the piazza, and it is of the same style of opus quadratum construction as the walls below the Barberini gardens.
At the east, instead of the lower solid wall of opus quadratum, there is a series of fine tufa arches built to serve as a substructure for something.
The second wall of the city, which was rather an enlargement of the first, was cyclopean on the east as far as the present Porta del Sole, and either scarped cliff or opus quadratum round to Porta S.
The arches are older than the present opus quadratum wall, and the road swung round and up to align with the road below and the old wall or escarpment of the city above.
It dates from the time when the Corso terrace was made, and is of opus quadratum like the best of the wall below the city, and the wall on the lower side of the terrace.
These walls of opus quadratum were built with a purpose, to be sure, but their entire meaning has not been understood.
Fernique shows this much in his map, but by a curious oversight names itopus incertum.
The pavements here are very fine examples of Opus Alexandrinum, with a more than usual proportion of black marble, and there is a grand mosaic in the apse, of the B.
Mark's, the floor is paved with Opus Alexandrinum, of which, in spite of damage done during the late repairs, it is a fine example.
The expressions opus doliare and ex figlinis are now no longer found, and in place of the latter officina is invariable.
Over the whole was laid a coating of cement (opus tectorium) in which pounded pottery was the chief constituent, and this was stuccoed.
At Pompeii the opus reticulatum dates from the time of Augustus; it is laid on concrete, and the bricks are small four-sided pyramids with bases 3 to 4 inches square.
Footnote 2509: Opus doliare is the invariable word for bricks or tiles in Roman inscriptions, figlinum being confined to pottery of the finer kind (cf.
This combination of opus reticulatum and brickwork is well illustrated in the palace of Caligula.
The opus mixtum (the term is not classical) prevailed regularly under the later Empire, from the fourth to the sixth century; the earliest example which can be dated is the circus of Maxentius.
Inscriptions of this class are only found on opus doliare, and chiefly in Italy.
The most splendid example of the opus Anglicanum now in existence is, of course, the Syon cope at the South Kensington Museum; but English work seems to have been celebrated all over the Continent.
A Cancelled Proem to the Aeneid ILLE ego qui quondam gracili modulatus auena carmen, et egressus siluis uicina coegi ut quamuis auido parerent arua colono, gratum opus agricolis: at nunc horrentia Martis.
If this be so, we have in this first place of Christian worship established in Rome the first instance of the application of Opus Alexandrinum to the decoration of a church.
It must have been completed in 1464; for in this year Dati received a copy, which he styled opus paene divinum, and began to annotate.
