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  • I gave him the name of Felix and Agathemer that of Asper, as we had agreed, neither of us thinking it advisable to claim to be free Romans by prefixing, "Sabinus" and "Bruttius."

    Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900

  • They were spirits, ancestors – two-faced Janus, Saturn, Italus, Sabinus, grandfather Picus who was turned into the redcapped woodpecker but whose statue sat in stiff carved toga holding the sacred staff and shield -- a double row of grim figures in cracked and blackened cedar.

    'Lavinia' 2008

  • Statilius Taurus, who had by far the longest voyage to make, was to sail from Tarentum fifteen days earlier, on the Kalends, while Octavian, Messala Corvinus, and Sabinus set off from Portus Julius the day before the Ides, and Agrippa, the day after the Ides.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Lucius Cornificius, junior consul this year, was brave and clever in command, as were Sabinus, Statilius Taurus, and Messala Corvinus.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Lucius Cornificius, junior consul this year, was brave and clever in command, as were Sabinus, Statilius Taurus, and Messala Corvinus.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Sabinus also was dowered with a team of praetors to hear grievance lawsuits, of which there were many; Romans of all Classes were litigious.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Statilius Taurus, who had by far the longest voyage to make, was to sail from Tarentum fifteen days earlier, on the Kalends, while Octavian, Messala Corvinus, and Sabinus set off from Portus Julius the day before the Ides, and Agrippa, the day after the Ides.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • The above heroine, learning that her husband Sabinus, vanquished by the troops of the emperor, was concealed in a deep cavern between Franche-Comté and Champagne, shut herself up with him, attended on him for many years, and bore children in that situation.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Sabinus also was dowered with a team of praetors to hear grievance lawsuits, of which there were many; Romans of all Classes were litigious.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Seneca (Ep.xxvii. 7) reports that one Calvisius Sabinus paid 100,000 sestertii apiece for slaves learned in the Greek classics.

    Mind the Gap 2004

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