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  • This Frontinus is the author of the work on "Stratagems," and, at the time of his appointment to the lieutenancy of Britain, he was _curator aquarum_ at

    The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Caius Cornelius Tacitus

  • 'Stratagems'; with the two egregious Poets, LUCRETIUS and MANILIUS: Of the Greek, HESIOD, a poet equal to Homer; ARATUS his Phaenomena and Diosemeia; DIONYSIUS AFER 'De Situ Orbis'; OPPIAN'S

    The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859

  • Stratagems and economic theories and black-tie dinner parties over food you've never tasted and wine you've never drunk, followed by dessert and champagne to celebrate their escape from the life you must daily lead.

    Saving Tinkerbell 2009

  • In the Chinese classic The Thirty-Six Stratagems, the eighth strategy reads, "Openly repair the gallery roads, but sneak through the passage of Chencang."

    Sneak attack on Internet freedom of speech 2008

  • There are many useful tidbits of information about Salamis, Artemisium, and trireme warfare in general in Polyaenus, Stratagems of War, ed. and trans.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • There are many useful tidbits of information about Salamis, Artemisium, and trireme warfare in general in Polyaenus, Stratagems of War, ed. and trans.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • Divers Stratagems are invented and put in practice, in order to overcome the obstinacy of Trunnion, who, at length, is teased and tortured into the Noose of Wedlock.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • Divers Stratagems are invented and put in practice, in order to overcome the obstinacy of Trunnion, who, at length, is teased and tortured into the Noose of Wedlock.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • Divers Stratagems are invented and put in practice, in order to overcome the obstinacy of Trunnion, who, at length, is teased and tortured into the Noose of Wedlock.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • Now he had a little leisure to read Sextus Julius's Stratagems and Subtleties of War and escape into the military campaigns of ancient Rome.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

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