He was born at Volaterrae in Etruria, and was the son of a Roman knight who died when Persius was quite young: 'Natus in Etruria Volaterris, eques Romanus, sanguine et affinitate primi ordinis viris coniunctus.
De Viris Illustribus, his last work, was dedicated to Atticus (praef.
The source from which he derived nearly all his information on literature is universally admitted to have been the work of Suetonius De Viris Illustribus.
Omnibu' cura viris uter esset induperator, and in the epithet which Cicero quotes as applied to cities-- Urbes magnas atque imperiosas.
The first humanising influence is traced to domestic union and the affection inspired by children-- Et Venus inminuit viris puerique parentum Blanditiis facile ingenium fregere superbum.
That account, like similar notices of other Roman writers, came to Jerome in all probability from the lost work of Suetonius, 'de viris illustribus.
We are enabled to go back to the original and nearly contemporary authorities which Suetonius used in his work 'De viris illustribus.
The circumstance, that the sums paid back to the treasury in consequence of the verdicts as to the embezzlement of the Tolosan booty were claimed by Saturninus in his second tribunate for his schemes of colonization (De Viris Ill.
The African agrarian law is definitely placed by the treatise De Viris Ill.
He was a prolific writer, but only his De Viris Illustribus is preserved.
NEPOS was a prolific writer, but only a portion of one of his works, De Viris Illustribus, has come down to us; it is neither accurate nor interesting, and of little value.
De Viris Illustribus+, a history of Latin literature up to his day.
Isidore, in his life of Leander (De Viris Illustribus, cap.
Alexandri Alesii de tota Epistola ad Romanos diversis temporibvs propositae ab ipso in celebri Academia Lipsensi, et a mvltis doctis viris expetitae, iam tandem collectae per Georgivm Hantsch, et editae in gratiam stvdiosorvm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "viris" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
