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  • One coming up (he, too, was a chief of a Saracen tribe) besought the divine personage that he would help a man whose limbs had given way in paralysis on the road; and he said the misfortune had fallen on him in Callinicus, which is a very large camp.

    The Hermits Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 1878

  • (he, too, was a chief of a Saracen tribe) besought the divine personage that he would help a man whose limbs had given way in paralysis on the road; and he said the misfortune had fallen on him in Callinicus, which is a very large camp.

    The Hermits Charles Kingsley 1847

  • Thracian cavalrymen, for example, fought like wild beasts, long kept in cages and then aroused when they defeated the Romans at a skirmish at Callinicus in 171 B.C. They returned to camp singing and brandishing on their spears the severed heads of their enemies.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Thracian cavalrymen, for example, fought like wild beasts, long kept in cages and then aroused when they defeated the Romans at a skirmish at Callinicus in 171 B.C. They returned to camp singing and brandishing on their spears the severed heads of their enemies.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Thracian cavalrymen, for example, fought like wild beasts, long kept in cages and then aroused when they defeated the Romans at a skirmish at Callinicus in 171 B.C. They returned to camp singing and brandishing on their spears the severed heads of their enemies.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Thracian cavalrymen, for example, fought like wild beasts, long kept in cages and then aroused when they defeated the Romans at a skirmish at Callinicus in 171 B.C. They returned to camp singing and brandishing on their spears the severed heads of their enemies.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Charged with finding some device to break the siege of the city, Syrian engineer Callinicus of Heliopolis demonstrated his latest invention to Emperor Constantine IV, an incendiary substance with properties unlike any ever seen before.

    DesignerBlog Will 2008

  • Charged with finding some device to break the siege of the city, Syrian engineer Callinicus of Heliopolis demonstrated his latest invention to Emperor Constantine IV, an incendiary substance with properties unlike any ever seen before.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Will 2008

  • Just as the Greeks, too, gave additional names in old time, in some cases from some achievement, Soter, for example, and Callinicus; or personal appearance, as Physcon and Grypus; good qualities, Euergetes and

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • The Lombards took the city in 569 or 570, but their chief in 590 placed himself under the exarch Callinicus, who in 601 took possession of Parma, and imprisoned the Duke Godiscalc; the city however soon returned to the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

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