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  • A young, crisp cumulus can develop a "pileus"—a delicate, evanescent cloud-cap, which Mr. Pretor- Pinney disconcertingly likens to Donald Trump's comb-over.

    Cirrus Concerns Peter Pesic 2011

  • In this short volume, Mr. Pretor- Pinney does not much concern himself with myth or even history, though for centuries human industry has been darkening the skies with sooty clouds of our own creation.

    Cirrus Concerns Peter Pesic 2011

  • Mr. Pretor- Pinney's primer implicitly invites an entire literature as yet unwritten.

    Cirrus Concerns Peter Pesic 2011

  • Odendaal said the event was one of three national millennium celebrations sanctioned by the Cabinet - the others will be held at the Union Buildings in the capital Pretor! ia and on the beach front on the East Coast city of Durban.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Theodosius Emperor of Rome, writyng to Uolusianus his chief Pretor, as concernyng his office, in these woordes, saieth: _Digna vox est maiestate regnantis legibus alligatum se principem profiteri.

    A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

  • For an ingenious defence of the view that Persius hits directly at Nero see Pretor, _Class.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Cicero (106 B.C. –43 B.C.) (61 B.C.) Born in 106 B.C., died in 43; served in the Social War in 89; Questor in Sicily in 75; Edile in 69; Pretor in 66; Consul during the Catiline conspiracy; banished in 58; Proconsul of Cilicia in 51–50; with the Pompeians in 49; proscribed by the Second Triumvirate, and slain in 43; of his orations fifty-seven have been preserved.

    II. In Opposition to a New Agrarian Law 1906

  • Cicero (106 B.C. –43 B.C.) (44 B.C.) Born in 106 B.C., died in 43; served in the Social War in 89; Questor in Sicily in 75; Edile in 69; Pretor in 66; Consul during the Catiline conspiracy; banished in 58; Proconsul of Cilicia in 51–50; with the Pompeians in 49; proscribed by the Second Triumvirate, and slain in 43; of his orations fifty-seven have been preserved.

    VII. The Second Oration Against Mark Antony 1906

  • Cicero (106 B.C. –43 B.C.) (61 B.C.) Born in 106 B.C., died in 43; served in the Social War in 89; Questor in Sicily in 75; Edile in 69; Pretor in 66; Consul during the Catiline conspiracy; banished in 58; Proconsul of Cilicia in 51–50; with the Pompeians in 49; proscribed by the Second Triumvirate, and slain in 43; of his orations fifty-seven have been preserved.

    V. In Behalf of Archias the Poet 1906

  • Cicero (106 B.C. –43 B.C.) (63 B.C.) Born in 106 B.C., died in 43; served in the Social War in 89; Questor in Sicily in 75; Edile in 69; Pretor in 66; Consul during the Catiline conspiracy; banished in 58; Proconsul of Cilicia in 51–50; with the Pompeians in 49; proscribed by the Second Triumvirate, and slain in 43; of his orations fifty-seven have been preserved.

    III. The First Oration Against Catiline 1906

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