Majores

[211] Dodekatheos; the twelve Dii Majores; they are enumerated in two verses by Ennius: --

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Corneille and Bossuet together constitute a kind of rank by themselves among the _Dii Majores_ of the French literary Olympus.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

Majores nostri, P. C., neque consilii neque audaciae unquam eguere, neque illis superbia obstabat, quo minus aliena instituta, si modo proba erant, imitarentur.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

The magistrates of Rome were of two classes; the _Majores_, or higher, and the _Minores_, or lower.

Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell

Majores eorum omnia, quae licebat, illis reliquere, divitias, imagines, memoriam sui praeclaram; virtutem non reliquere, neque poterant; ea sola neque datur dono neque accipitur.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

I have chosen to record six days of a long and eventful life; and (as Messire Heleigh might have done) I say modestly with him of old, _Majores majora sonent_.

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

I have chosen to record six days of a long and eventful life; and (as Messire Heleigh might have done) I say modestly with him of old, _Majores majora sonent.

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

He will increase silently in reputation until we, in old age, shall be surprised to find our sons and grandsons taking him for granted and speaking of him as one speaks of the Majores, of the permanent lights of poetry.

First and Last Hilaire Belloc 1911

For in baptism there is an infusion, not of faith alone, but also, at the same time, of hope and love, as Pope Alexander declares in the canon Majores concerning baptism and its effect; which John the Baptist also taught long before, saying,

The Confutatio Pontificia Johann Michael Reu 1906

The principal aim of this great man -- for he rightly has his niche among the Polar _Dii Majores_ -- was the advancement of knowledge.

The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition Charles Turley 1904