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- adjective
famous for being anactor
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Examples
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Cornelian laws in regard to canvassing for office and edicts of praetors: the Roscian in regard to seats for the knights: the Manilian in regard to the voting of freedmen (chapters 38-42).
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But it is peculiarly suited to your own audacity, that you sat among the fourteen rows of the knights, though by the Roscian law there was a place appointed for bankrupts, even if any one had become so.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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But it is peculiarly suited to your own audacity, that you sat among the fourteen rows of the knights, tho by the Roscian law there was a place appointed for bankrupts, even if any one had become such by the fault of fortune and not by his own.
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The Roscian strain in him had its own tragic force and reality.
The World for Sale, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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The Roscian strain in him had its own tragic force and reality.
The World for Sale, Volume 2. Gilbert Parker 1897
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The Roscian strain in him had its own tragic force and reality.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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I took what Joe gave me, and found it to be the crumpled playbill of a small metropolitan theatre, announcing the first appearance, in that very week, of "the celebrated Provincial Amateur of Roscian renown, whose unique performance in the highest tragic walk of our National Bard has lately occasioned so great a sensation in local dramatic circles."
Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861
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A folded piece of paper in one of them attracting my attention, I opened it and found it to be the playbill I had received from Joe, relative to the celebrated provincial amateur of Roscian renown.
Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861
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I took what Joe gave me, and found it to be the crumpled play-bill of a small metropolitan theatre, announcing the first appearance, in that very week, of ` the celebrated Provincial Amateur of Roscian renown, whose unique performance in the highest tragic walk of our National Bard has lately occasioned so great a sensation in local dramatic circles. '
Great Expectations 1860
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A folded piece of paper in one of them attracting my attention, I opened it and found it to be the playbill I had received from Joe, relative to the celebrated provincial amateur of Roscian renown.
Great Expectations 1860
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