Roman Numerals are used all over the world. This website will show you how to read & write them PLUS provide lots of interesting examples of their uses. The site also contains many activities designed to help you practice Roman numbers & and some really awful ‘dad jokes’. Explore the wo...
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 ...
winged words and asked her : ‘Delos, if you would be willing to be the abode of my son Phoibos Apollon and make him a rich temple--; for no other will vouch you, as you will find: and I think you will be rich in oxen and sheep, nor bear vintage nor yet produce plants ...
Yet another tradition relates that Romulus and Remus are nursed by the Wolf-Goddess Lupa or Luperca in her cave-lair (lupercal). Luperca was given cult for her protection of sheep from wolves and her spouse was the Wolf-and-Shepherd-God Lupercus, who brought fertility to the flocks. She ...
They were farmers, cultivating wheat, oats and barley, and keeping pigs, herds of cattle, and flocks of sheep and goats. They depended on their livestock forfoodmuch more than they did their crops. The Celts knew the skill of weaving, using a strong wooden frame called a loom and threads...
Well, first of all,’ he said, ‘we must put a stop to their foreknowledge of their death; for this they at present foreknow. However, Prometheus has already been given the word to stop this in them. Next they must be stripped bare of all those things before they are tried; for ...
Roughly then this is the situation at the centre of government. Sumptuously housed on the Palatine Hill–the origin of our word “palace”–is His Highness Claudius Nero, Head of the State, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, Empowered to act as Tribune of the People, and Head of the Stat...
seen and usually follows a "V" . The Romans wrote an "I" where we might write a "J" and pronounced it as a consonant with a "yuh" sound in these places. The "V" stood for our "U" and made a "W" sound where we might make the "V" sound reading the word in modern English...
Most Roman recipes for cheese that have come down to us call for sheep’s or goat’s milk. When Pliny the Elder writes in the first century, he says that at the time, Goats Milk cheeses were the most popular. He also pronounces a cheese from what is now France to be the best: ...
The tenth month, from the latin word for ten –decem. Various months had attempted name changes though they didn’t stick. For example emperor Commodus in 184AD even tried to rename all of them with some form of relationship to himself. This was undone after his death. ...