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101perorate — intransitive verb ( rated; rating) Etymology: Latin peroratus, past participle of perorare to declaim at length, wind up an oration, from per through + orare to speak more at per , oration Date: 1603 1. to deliver a long or grandiloquent oration… …
102Autobiography — An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos self , βίος bios life and γράφειν graphein to write ,, is a biography written by the predicate or composed conjointly with a collaborative writer (styled as told to or with ). The term was first used… …
103Constantine I — Infobox Roman emperor title = Emperor of the Roman Empire name=Constantine I full name =Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus caption =Head of Constantine s colossal statue at the Capitoline Museums reign =25 July 306 ndash; 29 October 312… …
104Thucydides — (c. 460 B.C. ndash; c. 395 B.C.) (Greek Θουκυδίδης, Thoukydídēs ) was a Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War , which recounts the 5th century B.C. war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 B.C. Thucydides has… …
105Theodore the Studite — Infobox Saint name=Theodore the Studite birth date=759 death date=826 feast day=11 November venerated in=Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, Roman Catholic Church imagesize=200px caption=St. Theodore of Studion: 11th century… …
106Libanius — (Greek: Λιβάνιος , Libanios ; ca. 314 ca. 394) was a Greek speaking teacher of rhetoric of the later Roman Empire, an educated Pagan of the Sophist school in an Empire that was turning Christian.He was born into a once influential, deeply… …
107Julius Caesar (play) — The ghost of Caesar taunts Brutus about his imminent defeat. (Copperplate engraving by Edward Scriven from a painting by Richard Westall: London, 1802.) The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, also known simply as Julius Caesar, is a tragedy by William… …
108Anna Komnene — Porphyrogenita of the Byzantine Empire Spouse Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger Issue Alexios Komnenos, Megas doux John Doukas Irene Doukaina Maria Bryennaina Komnene Full name Anna Komnene Greek …
109Maximus I of Constantinople — Maximus, also known as Maximus I or Maximus the Cynic, was the intrusive patriarch of Constantinople in 380, where he became a rival of Gregory Nazianzus.Born in Alexandria into a poor family, he was the son of Christian parents, who had suffered …
110Charles Sumner — For other people named Charles Sumner, see Charles Sumner (disambiguation). Charles Sumner Daguerreotype of Senator Sumner, 1855 United States Senator from Massachusetts …
