... diameter. The administration ofthe sewers, in the time ofthe Republic, was in the hands of the censors, but special officers calledcuratores cloacarum were employedduring the Empire, andthe workmenwho ... athttp://www.pgdp.netOUTLINES OF GREEK AND The Project Gutenberg EBook of Outlines of GreekandRoman Medicine, by James Sands ElliottThis eBook is for the use of anyoneanywhere at no cost and withalmost ... acolyteholding a cock, the Dioscuri and theirhorses, the head of Serapis, and aheadless statue of Apollo. The Cloaca Maxima was formed of threetiers of arches, the vault within the innermost tier...
... among the hills. The sacred groves of cypresses were on three sides ofthe temple, and "to the north the verdant plain of Cos,with the white houses and trees ofthe town to the right, andthe ... Rome.Educated Romans were able to speak and write both Latin and Greek, andthe latter language was the vehicleused by men of science andof letters. The population ofthe city of Rome at the beginning of ... relief ofthe sick andthe poor did not enter the minds ofthe ancientRomans.Before considering the state ofthe healing art throughout the period oftheRoman Empire, it is necessary todevote the...
... encountered the tundra lands of the far north before the end ofthe seventeenth century. The tundra, which is the region of swamp, moss, peat, lichen, scrub and perennial grassland to the north ofthe ... maintained along the middle and lower reaches ofthe Volga, the Bulgars and Khazars were already there in force. The installation of northerners on the middle Dnieper towards the end of the ninth century ... along the river systems between the Baltic Sea in the north and the Black and Caspian Seas to the south were important for the development of early Rus’. The soils ofthe forest zones ofthe north-east...
... Professor ofHistory at the University of Sunderland and the author of Between Two Revolutions: Stolypin andthe Politics of Renewal inRussia (1998) andThe End of Imperial Russia (1997).theodore ... wereintroducedintheGrand DuchyofFinlandaroundtheturn ofthe century. Particularly resented were the introduction of Russian as the language of official business andthe attempt to subject Finns to the Russian13 ... shakibi is a Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science andthe author ofThe King, The Tsar, The Shah andthe Making of Revolution in France, Russia, and Iran (2006).timothy...
... ideology included the idea ofthe innateantagonismbetween capitalism and socialism andthe infallibility ofthe Kremlin as the 56 John Lewis Gaddis, The United States andthe Origins ofthe Cold War, ... to the fall of the monarchy in March 1917; and volume III continues the storythrough to the end ofthe twentieth century. At the core of all threevolumes are the Russians, the lands which they ... peoples ofthe empire. Among the unifying themes of the volume are: the tensions between nations and empire in the evolution of the Russian and Soviet states; the oscillation between reform and revolution,usually...
... effects on the environment. ã Actions of humans have become the dominant environmental influence on the health and well-being ofthe planet.Principles of Environmental Toxicology10Impact of “Silent ... expose ofthe damage to the environment from indiscriminate use of chlorinated pesticides.Principles of Environmental Toxicology8Impact of Silent Springã A plea for less harmful methods of insect ... subverting the continuing progress of science that was central to the development ofthe nation.Principles of Environmental Toxicology12Chemical Industry Response, 2ã Defense of DDT became...
... aspect of the diphthongal system is uncertain and subject to fierce debate and the most controversial of these are discussed in Đ3.3.3 in the context of the development ofthe language. The situation ... scale, and both the changes themselves andthe nature of their interaction with oneanother can help us to a better understanding of various sound changes The place of English in Germanic and Indo-European-/' ... aspirated and then became spirants, but A alsomeans aspirated stops of the type IE bh, and these are the precursors of the Germanic voiced stops at least in some cases), M stands for media(and...
... ^-declension. The paradigm of cat, then, would be {cat} ~{cat} +{sj ~ {cat} + {s2}, and similarly for dog and church, by virtue of their membership ofthe same paradigm. On the other hand, the paradigm ... ignore the infinitive the alternation would be the same as in drifan, despite the fact that the original post-vocalic consonant was in the case of the former *[b], in the case ofthe latter ... declined like word, they need not be discussed. The neuters, like the masculines, are further examples ofthe simplification of the declensional system. But the motivation for the shift was not...
... typically dativewith a verb of harming, (dis)pleasing, (dis)believing; and verbs of accusing, asking and depriving typically take the accusative of the person andthe genitive ofthe thing.It does not ... Quirk(1953), then followed by a sequence of papers in the periodical Language over the next decade. Many ofthe papers espousing the traditional point of viewcan be found in Quirk (1968) and many of ... in the normal course of events, cf. PDEbe going to). One ofthe conditions for the extension ofthe scul- of obligation to prediction may have been its use in sentences such as (9) and the...
... represents the exact words ofthe reportedproposition, and when the subjects ofthe main clause andof the complement are the same. It is only occasionally absent if the complement represents the words ... the de-monstrative andthe relativiser that permits the latter to arise from the former in many languages ofthe world. When, as in OE, nomorphological split between the demonstrative andthe ... Jim to paint the kitchen ='She expected that Jim would paint the kitchen'. If the subject of the lower verb is co-referential with the subject ofthe higher verb, thenthere is no...
... ' the same westward movement from Norway as thatwhich led to the Scandinavian settlement ofthe Scottish Isles and Ireland, and eventually to the colonisation of Iceland and Greenland and the ... Scandinavians; on the other hand,there is the well-known popularity of the stone-cross in Ireland, and the influence of Celtic art on the stone crosses of England. Moreover, thereare hardly ... the kinsmen): ' And then they (K) offered their kinsmen that they might depart unscathed. And they (E) said that the same offer had been made to their (K) comrades, whohad been with the...
... 1968:8ff., 96; Marchand1969:15fT.). The basic criterion used here is the derived status of the determinatum andthe function ofthe determinant as one of the arguments ofthe underlying predicate.2 ... monostratal because ofthe nature ofthe OE texts, which allcome from the same type of social group and represent only the writtenlanguage. At the same time this limits the dimension of& apos; attitude' ... represented, but there is a definite preponderance of the feminines among the Action nouns, andofthe masculines among the Agent and Instrumental nouns; neuter nouns are rare. Masculines and neuters...
... additions to the Rushworth Gospels (Ral). As is the case forNorthumbria, no East Midland texts apparently survive the period of the Viking invasions of England.Since the texts ofthe period ofthe Mercian ... of midlands and southern kings and subkings over several centuries. Wealso have data of another sort because the scribes who wrote and used the Latin manuscripts ofthe day often found their texts ... wonder if the Mercian Bede was made for him. Atany rate the nature and style of these texts reinforces our sense of the inter-relatedness of literacy andthe coalition of church and state.Figure...