Sentence examples similar to ancient catalogues from inspiring English sources

What has come down to us are just the three books on rhetoric, which we know as The Rhetoric, though the ancient catalogue of the Aristotelian works, reported by Diogenes Laertius, mentions only two books on rhetoric (perhaps our Rhetoric I & II), and two further books on style (perhaps our Rhetoric III?).

The so-called Lamprias catalogue, an ancient library catalogue (preserved mutilated), supposedly compiled by Plutarch's son Lamprias, lists 227 works, several of them no longer extant (Russell 1973, 18 19).

Many of these premium items are very similar to products found in ancient Faber catalogues: there is not much scope for innovation in pencil design, though the company got a shot in the arm from its triangular "grip" pencil, embossed with novel anti-slip dots, launched in 2001.Count Faber-Castell is the embodiment of his firm's brand: a tall, patrician figure, usually in a well tailored suit.

The not so ancient back-catalogue of the Bush, the Court, Paines Plough, Hampstead are all ripe for plundering and I can't wait to see the results.

Along with levels made by Nintendo, which include one nostalgic tranche based on characters and settings from its ancient back catalogue, you can also use the Fullblox Studio to build your own puzzles and play other people's, a feature that's unlocked as soon as you've spent any money.

Among the antiques my mother passed on to me was a pretty Georgian chest of drawers and I cursed her on discovering it to be stuffed to bursting with ancient jigsaws, seed catalogues and a mass of old letters.

As archaeologists were going through the video frame by frame, cataloguing ancient losses, other lists of crimes were being written up.

More significantly, the measurements, drawings, profiles, plans and proposals for the theoretical restoration of Peloponnesian monuments, of Attica and of the Cyclades were, following James Stuart and Nicholas Revett's Antiquities of Athens, a new attempt to systematically and exhaustively catalogue ancient Greek ruins.