Sentence examples for a roman called from inspiring English sources

A Roman called Silvianus informs the god Nodens that his ring has been stolen.

It certainly makes the later joke about a Roman called Biggus Dickus seem very much in keeping with the humour of the first century.

Written on it was a plea from a Roman called Silvianus, asking Nodens, the god of the Lydney temple, to return a ring, stolen by Senicianus, and placing a curse of ill health on the thief.

The men were actors, Peter Sproule and Greg Hicks, on the main stage of the National Theatre, and they were pretending to have sex while also pretending to be a Celt called Marban and a Roman called Third Soldier in a play by Howard Brenton called The Romans in Britain.

A Roman call to arms at the end is made to seem an empty, craven attempt to take political advantage of a private tragedy, a bit of saber rattling as pointless as the rape itself.

"Roman called me every Wednesday," Ms. Catus said.

"Predatory lending at its best," Mr. Roman called it.

To avoid such errors, Greeks cut off a finger; Romans called out the dead's name; Slavs rubbed bodies with warm water for an hour; Hebrews considered putrefaction the only fail-safe indicator.

To curtail the damage, Harbaugh and Roman call a lot of their downfield shot plays on first-and-10, where defenses rarely blitz and are more susceptible to play-action.

Lee and Roman call that a bargain.

The ancient Romans called a cohesive ethnopolitical unit a tribus (see tribe).