Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman antiquity, a shed or gallery movable on wheels, serving to protect besiegers and to connect their works.
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Examples
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Cadit custos vitis in vinea, dux in castris, cultor in area.
12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004 John 2003
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A cuius latere in montis appendentia colitur vinea, quam nominant Iosuæ scophis, de qua quidam putare volunt, quod Sanctus Ioannes Euangelista eam primò plantauit.
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Hæc ita breuiter, ipsam summam perstringendo, fides nostra est, et nostra religio, quaro monstrante spirtu Sancto, et ipsius in vinea
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Ast ver� iam postquam Dominus Deus per Lutherum, et Lutheri in vinea Domini collegas, et pios successores, salutis doctrinam illustriorem reddidit, menti鵰que nostrarum graui veterno et densa caligine excussis, dextr� su� digito, hoc est, spiritu Sancto,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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H鎐 ita breuiter, ipsam summam perstringendo, fides nostra est, et nostra religio, quaro monstrante spirtu Sancto, et ipsius in vinea
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ast verò iam postquam Dominus Deus per Lutherum, et Lutheri in vinea Domini collegas, et pios successores, salutis doctrinam illustriorem reddidit, mentiùmque nostrarum graui veterno et densa caligine excussis, dextræ suæ digito, hoc est, spiritu Sancto,
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A cuius latere in montis appendentia colitur vinea, quam nominant Iosu� scophis, de qua quidam putare volunt, quod Sanctus Ioannes Euangelista eam prim� plantauit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Already it had failed in what may be called one conspiracy; already it had entered upon a second, viz. to rear up an _Anti-Kirk_, or spurious establishment, which should twist itself with snake-like folds about the legal establishment; surmount it as a Roman _vinea_ surmounted the fortifications which it beleaguered; and which, under whatsoever practical issue for the contest, should at any rate overlook, molest, and insult the true church for ever.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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Tenet mansum ingenuilem I, habentem de terre arabili bunuaria VIII et antsingas II, de vinea aripennos II, de prato aripennos VII.
Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914
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(_R. R..i. 7) of the relative degrees of productivity, although _vinea_ comes first (cf.p. 80) yet _pratum_ precedes _campus frumentarius_.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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