... diameter.
The administration ofthe sewers, in the
time ofthe Republic, was in the hands of
the censors, but special officers called
curatores cloacarum were employed
during the Empire, andthe workmen
who ... at
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almost ... acolyte
holding a cock, the Dioscuri and their
horses, the head of Serapis, and a
headless statue of Apollo.
The Cloaca Maxima was formed of three
tiers 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 vehicle
used 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 ancient
Romans.
Before considering the state ofthe healing art throughout the period oftheRoman Empire, it is necessary to
devote 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 in
Russia (1998) andThe End of Imperial Russia (1997).
theodore ... wereintroducedintheGrand DuchyofFinlandaroundthe
turn ofthe century. Particularly resented were the introduction of Russian as
the language of official business andthe attempt to subject Finns to the Russian
13 ... 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 innateantagonism
between 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 story
through to the end ofthe twentieth century. At the core of all three
volumes 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 Toxicology
10
Impact of “Silent ... expose ofthe damage to the environment
from indiscriminate use of chlorinated pesticides.
Principles of Environmental Toxicology
8
Impact of Silent Spring
ã 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 Toxicology
12
Chemical Industry Response, 2
ã 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 one
another 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 also
means 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}
+
{s
2
},
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 dative
with 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 view
can be found in Quirk (1968) and many of ... in the normal course of events, cf. PDE
be
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 reported
proposition, 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, no
morphological 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, then
there is no...
... ' the same westward movement from Norway as that
which 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, there
are 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, who
had been with the...
... 1968:8ff.,
96; Marchand
1969:15fT.). 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 all
come from the same type of social group and represent only the written
language. 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 for
Northumbria, 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. We
also 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. At
any rate the nature and style of these texts reinforces our sense of the
inter-relatedness of literacy andthe coalition of church and state.
Figure...