Sentence examples for xiv from inspiring English sources

In the first half of the third century, the poet Theocritus still preserves a memory of these Pythagorists as "pale and without shoes" (XIV 5).

For many analytic philosophers, John Cooper (1997, xiv) sounded the end of the developmentalist era when he described the early- and middle-period dialogue distinctions as "an unsuitable basis for bringing anyone to the reading of these works.

Hence it is wrong to portray Plutarch as an eclectic philosopher (e.g. Ziegler 1951, 940, F. Babbitt, Plutarch's Moralia, Introduction, vol. I, Loeb 1927, xiv, Becchi 1981), who occasionally compromises his Platonism in order to carry out his polemic (Dörrie 1971, Donini 1988b, 131, 1999, 16 19).

Louis XIV, the Sun King, who had Versailles built in the 17th century, had many mistresses, as was considered de rigeur for French kings.

In 1982, François Mitterrand, then France's newly elected president, entertained the world's leaders at Versailles, the elaborate palace and gardens built for Louis XIV.

The court of Louis XIV was impressed as much by the neckerchiefs of Croat mercenaries employed to fight the Thirty Years War as by their fighting spirit.

Seneca steps back from a format in which a philosopher justifies a theory in a step-by-step argument (Long 2003, 204; on the question of why Seneca chooses to write letters, see Inwood 2007, xiv-xv).

There's a week-long season from Birmingham Royal Ballet, which includes the London premiere of David Bintley's new Louis XIV-inspired work, The King Dances.

"Do you admire the master [Le Nôtre]?" Louis XIV asks De Barra.

"Your majesty, I've stink in my linen," he tells Louis XIV Alan Rickmann).

THE last time there was a parliament in Scotland, Louis XIV was on the throne of France and George Washington had not yet been born.