"Dux" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... totz a randa, Si que motz no y descapduelha. outra la terra normanda part la fera mar prionda; e si.m suy de midons lunhans. ves si.m tira cum diamans, la belha cui dieus defenda. Si.l reys engles el dux normans o vol, ieu la veirai, abans que l'iverns nos sobreprenda. [48] "The vers has been composed fully so that not a word is wanting, beyond the Norman land and the deep wild sea; and though I am far from my lady, she attracts me like a magnet, the fair one whom may God protect. ...
— The Troubadours • H.J. Chaytor
... Florence, 1,000 foot and 200 horse. Besides these, many nobles attached themselves to the expedition as volunteers. Santa Fiore was instructed to leave France the moment he should perceive that the heretics were treated with. "Quod si ipse summus copiarum Dux, vel de pace vel de rerum compositione quidquam Catholicae religioni damnosum praesentiret; [Pius V.] imperavit e vestigio aut converso itinere in Italiam remearet, aut ad Catholicum exercitum in Belgio cum haereticis bellantem sese ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird
... "Dido et dux," and so do Boston epicures. I'll sell at private sales, not for hotels! I used to imagine myself supplying one of the large hotels and saw ...
— Adopting An Abandoned Farm • Kate Sanborn
... Second in Command, has chosen the Six stoutest striplings for his troop, and, at the head of that Sacred Band, offers battle to Us at the head of the whole School. Nor does that formidable force decline the combat. War levels all foolish distinctions of scholarship. Booby is Dux now, and Dux Booby—and the obscure dunce is changed into an ...
— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson
... haereses in fide Christiana seminavit, quae fuerunt extirpatae a Rege nostro Francisco Christianissimo, qui non cessat insudare, ut Clemens summus Pontifex a sua Sede ejectus restituatur, quem Carolus Borbonius dux exercitus Caroli Austriaci electi in Imperatorem, in urbe obsederat hoc anno Domini 1527 die 6 Maii." Catalogus Gloriae Mundi, ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... tenacem propositi virum Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni Mente quatit solida, neque Auster Dux inquieti turbidus Hadriae, Nec fulminantis magna manus Jovis: Si fractus illabatur orbis, Impavidum ferient ruinae. —Hor., Lib. III. ...
— Hero Tales From American History • Henry Cabot Lodge, and Theodore Roosevelt
... 6) mentions this victory of Theodosius Junior Dux Maesiae, prima etiam tum lanugine juvenis, princeps postea perspectissimus. The same fact is attested by Themistius and Zosimus but Theodoret, (l. v. c. 5,) who adds some curious circumstances, strangely applies it to ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon |
