Nuntius

: For the Greek word Angel, is in Latin Nuntius, ` a messenger. '

Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842

Nuntius celso veniens Olympo te patri magnum fore nasciturum, nomen et vitae seriem gerendae ordine promit.

Archive 2008-06-01 bls 2008

For should a man present to such an auditory, the most sententious tragedy that ever was written, observing all the critical laws as height of style, and gravity of person, enrich it with the sententious Chorus, and, as it were Life and Death, in the passionate and weighty Nuntius: yet after all this divine rapture,

The White Devil 2007

For should a man present to such an auditory, the most sententious tragedy that ever was written, observing all the critical laws as height of style, and gravity of person, enrich it with the sententious Chorus, and, as it were Life and Death, in the passionate and weighty Nuntius: yet after all this divine rapture,

The White Devil 2007

And so was the manner the Auncients tooke, by some Nuntius {161}, to recount things done in former time or other place.

Defence of Poesie 1992

Prologue; the narrative by the _Nuntius_ in Act II, i, 35-137, is in the most approved classical manner; an _Umbra_ or Ghost makes its regulation entrance in the last Act, and though the accumulated horrors of the closing scenes violate every canon of classical art, they had become traditional in the semi-Senecan type of play, and were doubtless highly acceptable to the audiences of the period.

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

It will he seen that the drama is divided into six acts; but the last act consists of no more than a short speech by a Nuntius, who comes forward, as it should seem, to give a false representation of an historical fact -- so early did a dramatist feel himself warranted in deviating from received statements, if it better answered his purpose not to adhere to them.

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

My new acquaintances consist of the Papal Nuntius Viale, a very striking person, Professor Walther, the canonist, and some intelligent

Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 Robert Ornsby 1854

At the close of the chorus the Nuntius enters to announce the catastrophe, and Eurydice, the wife of Creon, disturbed by rumours within her palace, is made an auditor of the narration.

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Oedipus is recited by the Nuntius, in verses which Longinus has not extolled too highly.

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838