Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medieval music, the fifth voice or part, It either corresponded in compass to one of the other four, though independent, or strengthened the different parts in turn: hence sometimes called
vagans .
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Examples
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By skirmishes, meantime, in all of which he was superior, Marcellus gained himself such high repute, that, when the time of the Comitia at Rome was near at hand, the senate thought fit rather to recall the other consul from Sicily, than to withdraw Marcellus from his conflict with Hannibal; and on his arrival they bid him name Quintus Fulvius dictator.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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When the other consul arrived, they bade him name Quintus
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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6. He killed Theodahad in a place called Quintus beside the river Santernus and advanced through Tuscany himself, plundering all the wealth which Theodahad had gathered in Insula and Urbs Vetus.
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"How kind of Quintus Sertorius to solve our troubles!"
The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991
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"Quintus," she said very gravely, "do you know that I have often heard that Cæsar is a wicked libertine, who wishes to make himself tyrant?
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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"Quintus," she said, putting her arm around him, "Quintus, I am only a silly little girl.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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"Quintus," said the king, "I thank you sincerely for my new German acquaintance.
Frederick the Great and His Family Chapman Coleman 1843
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Cue betrayal, corruption, humiliation (Messala's), arrest, three years of galley slavery, adoption by and then gargantuan inheritance from Quintus Arrius and a triumphant return to Judaea (Ben Hur's).
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Michael Fassbender stars as Quintus Dias, Roman centurion and son of a legendary gladiator who leads a group of soldiers on a raid of a Pict camp to rescue a captured general (Dominic West).
Neil Marshall’s CENTURION to Stand Guard This Summer – Collider.com 2010
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It's centered on one Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Roman frontier fort that was raided by the Picts.
Neil Marshall’s ‘Centurion’ Enlists A Cast, Targets Ancient Epic » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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