What is the history of Translation is like a woman quote? Modern quote I am looking for the history of the [derogatory] quote: Translation is like a woman If it is beautiful, it is not faithful If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful It
ancient rome - History Stack Exchange Some notable examples would be the Julia gens (Caesar's origins) who emigrated from Alba Longa before Tullus Hostilius destroyed it and the Furia gens (Marcus Camillus' origins) who came from Tusculum
In the early Roman Republic, did every patrician family have at least . . . The first gens you mentioned was in my question and did have a consular tribune: The gens Foslia, later Folia, was a patrician family at Rome The first of the gens to appear in history was Marcus Foslius Flaccinator, consular tribune in 433 BC
What is the current academic consensus on Charlemagnes genealogy? The only thing I found on Google Books that seemed relevant was The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe (1993) by Pierre Riche Riche traces the ancestry of the family to Arnulf of Metz (c 582 – 640) He dismisses attempts to trace the genealogy back further He says the most reliable source is the biography Vita Sancti Arnulfi, written shortly after Arnulf's death This source
Why did Roman women have no praenomen? - History Stack Exchange In a recent question it was noted, as is well known, that Roman girls were not given praenomen, but took the feminine form of their father's gens - eg Valeria, Cornelia I have even read the assert
What did Richelieu mean by his six lines quote? Cardinal Richelieu is frequently quoted as saying, If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him What I've never seen
Were the Romans Trojans or Latins? - History Stack Exchange As far as cultural heritage goes, your best bet is almost always linguistics The linguistics in this case are quite clear The Romans were Latins Latin is an Indo-European language of the Italic family This means the cultural ancestors of the Romans were the Italic Tribes who migrated into Italy from the north around 1,800 BC The Italics themselves seem to have been part of a group of
Who said there were more idols gods than people in the ancient world . . . @RebChaimHaQoton - "Genius" probably does not come from "jinni " It is etymologically related to "gens," whence words like "gente" in Spanish or "genetic," i e it refers to a family (a genius was the spirit of a family) The French descendant "genie" was used to translate "jinni" as a type of cultural adaptation due to the slight and probably coincidental similarities between the words (only