Sentence examples for based on the roman from inspiring English sources
The Lithuanian alphabet is based on the Roman (Latin) alphabet.
Roman linear measures were based on the Roman standard foot (pes).
Trissino wrote a later verse comedy, I simillimi (published 1548), based on the Roman playwright Plautus Menaechmii.
Very recently, I received through the post a sample of a forthcoming book for children based on the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Transliteration means expressing a language which uses a different writing system (such as Arabic) in terms of symbols based on the Roman alphabet.
Their name was itself based on the Roman statesman Cicero's concept of humanitas, an educational and political ideal that was the intellectual basis of the entire movement.
Roman numeral, any of the symbols used in a system of numerical notation based on the ancient Roman system.
The concept is based on the ancient Roman lustrum rituals, a cleansing or purification of an individual or community through the removal of pollution.
The trick, to pretend impotence to be allowed where no complete man may go, is (distantly) based on the classic Roman comedy Eunuchus by Terence.
They also elaborated a modern, ethnic idea of nationhood based on the theory of Roman origins and the continuous presence of the Daco-Romans in Dacia since Trajan's conquest.
Roman histories put together by Hector Boece and by Raphael Holinshed, based on the writings of the Roman history writer Livy, are known to have influenced the plots of many of Shakespeare's historical plays.
