The former said in a speech "Our fathers thought Homer such a good poet that they made a law for him alone among poets that his poems should be recited by rhapsodists at every quinquennial holding of the Panathenaea.
It happened that the king of the country was then holding the pancha parishad, that is, in Chinese, the great quinquennial assembly.
There remains yet the question in regard to the men who filled the quinquennial office.
The quinquennial year seems to have been the year in which matters of consequence were more likely to be done than at other times.
Caudium, a duovir at Nola, and a quattuorvir quinquennalis at Capua, which again shows that a quinquennalis need not have been an official previously in the town in which he held the quinquennial office.
Cominius Bassus is made quinquennalis by order of the senate, and also made praefect for Germanicus and Drusus Caesar in their quinquennial year.
This duty was performed by the duovirs with quinquennial power, also often called censorial power.
Two of these inscriptions can be dated within a few years, for they show the election of Germanicus and Drusus Caesar, and of Nero and Drusus, the sons of Germanicus, to the quinquennial duovirate.
Marquardt makes this a proof that the quinquennial title shows nothing more than a function of the regular duovir.
Annual Death Rate of the Colored Race for three quinquennial periods.
This table shows an unmistakable decrease in the death rate for the successive quinquennial periods.
A fresh apportionment is made after each quinquennial census, when to each of the eighty-six departments is allotted a quota of representatives proportioned to population.
By the Italian Government the annuity itself has been made subject to quinquennial prescription, so that in the event of a recognition of the Law at any time by the papacy not more than a five-year quota, with interest, could be collected.
Even his quinquennial festival, inspired by the Greek contests in music and gymnastic,(85) represented a finer ideal of such gatherings, which was much needed by a race devoted to the coarse realism of pantomime and the butchery of the arena.
It was to satisfy such ambitions that Domitian founded the quinquennial competition on the Capitol, in the year 86 A.
Like Nero, he felt the force of the new Hellenist movement, and, under forms sanctioned by Roman antiquarians, he established a quinquennial festival in which literary genius was pompously rewarded.
Holconius Rufus had been ordinary duumvir five times, and twice quinquennial duumvir; he was priest of Augustus, and finally was elected patron of the town.
The accumulated interest of the remaining three-fifths, amounting, perhaps, to L4000, was to be devoted to a quinquennial exhibition of gladiators.
The album of another club at Ostia shows a list of nine patrons, two holders of quinquennial rank, and one hundred and twenty-three plebeians.
He speaks of the quinquennial religious conferences held by the king, at one of which he was present, of relics of the Buddha and of a monastery containing a thousand monks all students of the Hinayana.
As a churchman, he naturally dwells with pleasure on the many monasteries and great images, the quinquennial assemblies and religious processions.
The Napoleonic wars caused a slight lapse in the quinquennial indults.
Accordingly when, in 1567, Pius V was called upon to renew the quinquennial indult, he expressly excepted parochial churches and benefices with cure of souls.
It is hoped that the American Catalogue, an indispensable work in all libraries, will adopt in its annual and quinquennial issues the time-saving method of a single alphabet.
To the memory of Aulus Veius, son of Marcus, twice duumvir with judiciary authority, quinquennial duumvir, military tribune by the choice of the people.
On one of the pedestals the veneering of colored marble is still preserved, with an inscription showing that the person represented was Quintus Sallustius, "Duumvir, Quinquennial Duumvir, Patron of the Colony.
Make Lucius Caeserninus quinquennial duumvir of Nuceria, I beg of you, he's a good man.
Holconius also, when he had been chosen quinquennial duumvir, was honored with a statue.
For the encouragement of music and poetry he had established quinquennial games known as the Neronia.
His failure to win the prize at the quinquennial Agon Capitolinus in 94 A.
Domitian established a quinquennial competition in honour of Jupiter Capitolinus in 86 and an annual competition held every Quinquatria Minervae at his palace on the Alban mount.
In his quinquennial review of the progress of education in India, Mr. H.
The last quinquennial report issued by Mr. Orange, the able Director-General of Public Education, who is now leaving India, contains a terse but very significant passage.
Taking cereals and pulse corn together, the aggregate areas of wheat, barley, oats, rye, beans and peas in the United Kingdom varied as follows over the six quinquennial intervals embraced in the period Year.
On the promontory was an ancient temple of Apollo Actius, which was enlarged by Augustus, who also, in memory of the battle, instituted or renewed the quinquennial games called Actia or Ludi Actiaci.
The occasion which first called me to France was the “quinquennial exposition” in Paris.
At this quinquennial exposition which I attended, he received a gold medal for his automata, and the best figure which he had on exhibition I purchased at a good round price.
The month was still composed of thirty days, but the solar years were grouped into quinquennial periods, in the middle and at the end of which the lunar month was doubled.
Combining these quinquennial periods with the revolutions of the planet Brihaspati (Jupiter), which was calculated as occupying about twelve years, the Indian astronomers computed an astronomical cycle of sixty solar years.
Just now Vestrydom's victims are a-howl With rage at skinning; but their indignation Will fade, and they will feed the Official Ghoul Until the next Quinquennial Valuation.
Yes, But he would mention them with less elation If he had my experience, I guess, Of the not gayQuinquennial Valuation!
The Archbishop of Cologne for reasons of his own made his submission, and asked for a renewal of his quinquennial faculties (1787).
Westminster has been increasing in each quinquennial period; but No.
A Statement of the Average Annual Number of Suicides, Male and Female, in each Quinquennial Period; also, the proportion per cent.
A Statement of the Population of the City and Liberty of Westminster, according to each census, and the proportion which the number of Suicides in the Quinquennial Period immediately following each census bore to the population.
It will be noticed that in the sixty years covered by the above table there are but two quinquennial periods which show a falling-off in the rate of growth, viz.
The following table shows the growth of railroad mileage by quinquennial periods: YEAR.
They attacked those who were assembled to celebrate some quinquennial festival, and put them to death; they then attacked and exterminated the rest of the tribe.
As to civil cases the proposal was to make permanent the Mixed Tribunals, hitherto appointed for quinquennial periods (so that if not reappointed consular jurisdiction in civil cases would revive).
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