too. It can make me feel like a prisoner of my own life when there is no reason to panic. Abie does not maintain this quality—he thinks years ahead of me. That’s one of the primary things that attracted me to him, this sense of psychological freedom I could feel emanating...
eleutheromaniacadjective(a.) Mad for freedom. gastromancynoun(n.) A kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach. noun(n.) A species of divination, by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear ...
Pericles… declared that a man who took no interest in public affairs was not a quiet, unoffending citizen, but a useless one. In one word, he conceived that they were born to serve the state, not only in matters great and high, but in the least and lowest also. (Thucydides –History...
All of the foregoing contracts, nominate and innominate, were contracts in the true sense of the word, but there was another class of relations in which the law imposed duties and obligations as if the parties had actually contracted. These were the so-called quasi-contracts, and the forms ...
Romans 8:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 4-13. Romans 8:3 Or flesh, for sin Romans 8:10 Or you, your body is dead because of sin, yet ...
The slang word for prostitute in Latin was lupa. And the word for brothel was in fact lupanar or lupanarium. A lupa and her patron Clients were drawn in by the sexual allure of displayed ‘wares’, sometimes lined up naked on the curb outside, and the various experiences to be had ...
yes, but not in the way that you were asking. romans really loved hemp as a plant and they loved how easy it was to make ropes with it. we find hemp products all over the place and hemp, the word for it in latin is cannabis. so you can see the connection, but there's no ...
The title selected for this purpose was _Augustus_, a word for which there is no nearer English equivalent than “His Highness,” or perhaps “His Majesty,” if we imagine that term applied to one who, by a legal fiction, is not a king. The insane Caligula called himself, or let ...
Michael Laray Dozertook the handle of a gas pump and after soaking a woman with gasoline tried to use a lighter when he was shot by the officer. In a strictly literal sense of the word, these cases could be coded as unarmed. But would any person say that it was unreasonable for the ...
As Hadrian did not leave word for who should sucede him the task was given to the Senate and when they couldn't come to a decision the power was taken by Domitium of whome was in control of the First Legion which was seasoned in Rome and thus easily gained control of the Senate. Un...