ostia

• More info at www. ostia-music.com and www. myspace.com / 0stia. —  Side-Line news feed
• At one end of the Circus were twelve portals (ostia), behind which the eager charioteers were waiting. —  Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
• In French called hostie_, in Italian, ostia In all their religious processions, which are very frequent, the host is carried by the priest highest in authority, in a glass box placed on a staff about four feet long, which he holds before him and so far elevated that he has to look up to it. —  The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
• Thebarum portae, vel divitis ostia Nili, " —  The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
• Agricolam laudat juris legumque peritus Sub galli cantum, consultor ubi ostia pulsat. —  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4

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