prodigium

Instead, their version was known as prodigium, meaning a

Canada Free Press Kelly O'Connell 2010

Venus herself when she was a maid, nulli secunda, a mere quintessence, flores spirans et amaracum, foeminae prodigium: put case she be, how long will she continue?

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

* Hic prodigium narratur a Mose, quod lectores merito obstupefacere debet: [997] 1

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

-- "Hic prodigium narratur a Mose, quod lectores merito obstupefacere debet," etc. The lengthened comment on this and the following verses, it has been deemed necessary entirely to omit.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

'Vidimus [prodigium] eo tempore, quo de Seiano actum est.' Lipsius 'inference [74] that Seneca made a voyage to Egypt about this time is probable, though Seneca himself gives no direct information about it.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Some marked misfortune, an earthquake, lightning, a great famine, a portentous birth, or some such occurrence would be recognised as a _prodigium_, or sign of the god's displeasure.

The Religion of Ancient Rome Cyril Bailey 1914

[663] Red sand still occasionally falls in Italy, brought by a sirocco from the Sahara, and this accounts for the _prodigium_, "_pluit sanguine_," which is often met with.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

Grotius, the _prodigium Europæ_, as the epitaph calls him, the great jurisconsult of the seventeenth century -- that Grotius who wrote Latin verses at the age of nine, who composed Greek odes at eleven, who at fourteen indited philosophical theses, who three years later accompanied the illustrious Barneveldt in his embassy to Paris, where Henry IV. presented him to his court, saying, "Behold the miracle of Holland!" that

Holland, v. 1 (of 2) Edmondo De Amicis 1877

[198] A prodigium, or teras, but no semeion, distinguishing these words according to their original import.

The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement. 1789-1850 1870

Cum impios Tiberis haufiflet, ipfum etiam ilium cum equo et armis infignibus, fruftra conatum per abrupta ripae ulterioris eua - dere r idem Tiberis correptiim gurgite deuorauit; ne tarn deforme prodigium uel hanc obitus fui relinqueret famam, quod alicuius uiri fortis gla -

Panegyrici veteres qvos ex codice ms. librisqve collatis recensvit ae notis integris iisqve partim ad hve ineditis Christiani Gottlibii Schwarzii et excerptis aliorvm additis etiam svis instrvxit et illvstravit Wolfgangvs Iaegervs .. 1779