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  • Capable of driving any loudspeaker, the Aelius is a remarkable product using an outstanding hybrid design that combines the sonic purity of single-ended triode (SET) amplification with the power of push-pull amplification, all with unmatched build quality.

    HomeToys News 2010

  • As emperor, he attempted to pull back from the imperialist expansion of his predecessor Trajan and wanted, as the chronicler Aelius Spartianus put it, to "administer the republic [so that] it would know that the state belonged to the people and was not his property."

    Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor Joseph Epstein 2010

  • On his deathbed he sent a bulletin to the Senate naming his second cousin Publius Aelius Hadrianus Hadrian, the forty-one-year-old governor of Syria, as his adopted son and heir.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • Their hostility was exacerbated by the machinations of the Iago of the piece, Lucius Aelius Sejanus.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • A great demonstration of knights from all over Italy was organized on the Capitol by Aelius Lamia, and a delegation led by Hortensius went to call on the consuls to urge them to defend Cicero.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • The second was the son of Aelius Caesar, L. Ceionius Commodus, better known as Lucius Verus, who would marry Marcus Aurelius 'daughter Lucilla.

    The Antonine Dynastic Gallery at Sagalassos 2008

  • The experience just two years ago AD 31 when Aelius Sejanus, the captain of the Praetorian Guard, had tried to seize his throne had left Tiberius extremely paranoid and even more cruel than before.

    Rich in Every Way DR. GENE GETZ 2004

  • The experience just two years ago AD 31 when Aelius Sejanus, the captain of the Praetorian Guard, had tried to seize his throne had left Tiberius extremely paranoid and even more cruel than before.

    Rich in Every Way DR. GENE GETZ 2004

  • Strabo, p. 782, in his narrative of the retreat of Aelius Gallus, mentions a place which he calls Mal? tha, and of which he says it stood on the bank of a river — a position which few towns in Arabia have.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • "Well, old boy, this may be better than I thought, but before I kill you, you should know you have the honor of dying at the hands of Marcellius Aelius."

    The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

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