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  • The city thus bounded began to be called Caput Castellae.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Secondly, by the absurd constitution of the 'Caput' at Cambridge, a single M.A. had the power of stopping any business whatever, and an M.A. actually came to the Senate House with the intention of throwing out all the Graces on various business that day presented to the Senate.

    Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

  • Ophiuchus is depicted as a man holding a snake, as the constellation splits Serpens into two smaller constellations, Serpens Caput and Serpens Cauda, which are otherwise counted as one.

    What Is Ophiuchus? The Huffington Post 2011

  • Ophiuchus is depicted as a man holding a snake, as the constellation splits Serpens into two smaller constellations, Serpens Caput and Serpens Cauda, which are otherwise counted as one.

    What Is Ophiuchus? The Huffington Post 2011

  • And, Anony at 12:12, I can remember more words than that, if not spell them: "Caput apri defero, reddens laudes Domino."

    I Eat Terror For Breakfast 2010

  • It is most fitting that the Station for the first Sunday in the most solemn season of the year is at the Mater et Caput omnium Ecclesiarum, the Cathedral of the Holy Roman Church, the Basilica of the Most Holy Savior in the Lateran, better known by the secondary patronage under Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • The subject of the painting - as it is clear in the inscription “Eloquentia a Calumnie furore/ Innocentem libetrat/ Caput....”added on the open volume in the background on the left, below the parrot - is a free interpretation of the very famous allegory of Calumny, painted by the Greek painter Apelle

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • The masses on Se la face ay pale, L'Homme armé, Ecce ancilla Domini, and Ave regina coelorum are of this type; the Missa ‘Caput’ sometimes attributed to Dufay is now thought instead to be by an English composer.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009

  • The archaeological heritage and the artistic monuments of the Roman Empire have found their way to many continents, but it is in the capital city known in Roman times as Caput Mundi, which is Latin for "Capital of the World" that we can still find most of it.

    An invitation from the mayor of Rome: Come see Ancient Rome in 3D 2008

  • Ad Caput bonae spei incolae sunt nigerrimi: Si sol causa, cur non Hispani et Italiaeque nigri, in eadem latitudine, aeque distantes ab Aequatore, hi ad Austrum, illi ad Boream? qui sub

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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