A Universal Biographical Dictionary Containing the Lives of the Most Celebratd Characters of Every Age and Nation: ... to which is Added, a Dictionary of the Principal Divinities and Heroes of Grecian and Roman Mythology, and a Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living CharactersS. Andrus and Son, 1898 - 444 páginas |
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... celebrated actor , who flourished about the 670th year of Rome . He and Roscius were cotemporaries , and the best performers that ever appeared upon the Roman stage ; the former excelling in tragedy , the latter in comedy . Cicero put ...
... celebrated actor , who flourished about the 670th year of Rome . He and Roscius were cotemporaries , and the best performers that ever appeared upon the Roman stage ; the former excelling in tragedy , the latter in comedy . Cicero put ...
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... celebrated as a musical performer , particularly on the harpsichord , about 1737 . ALBORNOS , Giles Alvarez Carillo , arch . bishop of Toledo , and afterwards Cardinal . He resigned his cardinal's hat , and took up arms to reduce Italy ...
... celebrated as a musical performer , particularly on the harpsichord , about 1737 . ALBORNOS , Giles Alvarez Carillo , arch . bishop of Toledo , and afterwards Cardinal . He resigned his cardinal's hat , and took up arms to reduce Italy ...
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... celebrated Athenian gene - at Pisa ; died at Rome , 1558 . ral , slain 404 B. C. ALCIDAMAS , a Greek rhetorician ... celebrated for her courage and her eloquence . She headed an army , and was victorious ; she died about 1200 , in Italy ...
... celebrated Athenian gene - at Pisa ; died at Rome , 1558 . ral , slain 404 B. C. ALCIDAMAS , a Greek rhetorician ... celebrated for her courage and her eloquence . She headed an army , and was victorious ; she died about 1200 , in Italy ...
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... celebrated for their poetry . They all three died in 1574 . AMAMA , Sixtinus , a Hebrew professor of great learning and piety in Germany , who began a work called " Antibarbarus Biblicus , " but died before it was finished , in 1629 ...
... celebrated for their poetry . They all three died in 1574 . AMAMA , Sixtinus , a Hebrew professor of great learning and piety in Germany , who began a work called " Antibarbarus Biblicus , " but died before it was finished , in 1629 ...
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... celebrated grammarian , warm and lively , and his genius particularly was born in Samothracia , but chose Alexandria turned to raillery ; he had also very great spirit to reside at . He applied himself particularly to and resolution ...
... celebrated grammarian , warm and lively , and his genius particularly was born in Samothracia , but chose Alexandria turned to raillery ; he had also very great spirit to reside at . He applied himself particularly to and resolution ...
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