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  • Metella, which is the first to give one a true idea of what solid masonry really is.

    Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Various 1885

  • Parts of the Via Appia Antica are closed to traffic on Sundays, and the stretch running south from the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, lined with crumbling graves and tall umbrella pines, and parallel to an aqueduct, is one of the finer archaeological walks in the world.

    The Road from Ravenna 2006

  • On this principle they may as well accuse Caius Catullus for calling Clodia Lesbia, Ticidas for substituting the name Perilla for that of Metella, Propertius for concealing the name Hostia beneath the pseudonym of Cynthia, and Tibullus for singing of Delia in his verse, when it was Plania who ruled his heart.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • Parts of the Via Appia Antica are closed to traffic on Sundays, and the stretch running south from the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, lined with crumbling graves and tall umbrella pines, and parallel to an aqueduct, is one of the finer archaeological walks in the world.

    The Road from Ravenna 2006

  • On this principle they may as well accuse Caius Catullus for calling Clodia Lesbia, Ticidas for substituting the name Perilla for that of Metella, Propertius for concealing the name Hostia beneath the pseudonym of Cynthia, and Tibullus for singing of Delia in his verse, when it was Plania who ruled his heart.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • Australia's Libby Lenton followed in 24.90 and France's Malia Metella wasn't far behind in 24.96.

    USATODAY.com - Munz goes the distance for 800 bronze 2004

  • Metella, his own wife, to leave her husband, Manius Glabrio, he bestowed her, though then with child, on Pompey, and she died in childbirth at his house.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Sylla had a vehement and an implacable desire to conquer Athens, whether out of emulation, fighting as it were against the shadow of the once famous city, or out of anger, at the foul words and scurrilous jests with which the tyrant Aristion, showing himself daily, with unseemly gesticulations, upon the walls, had provoked him and Metella.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • In the midst of the banqueting, which lasted many days, Metella died of disease.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • He declares, moreover, that in vision he had seen his son, who had died not long before Metella, stand by in mourning attire, and beseech his father to cast off further care, and come along with him to his mother

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

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