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  • The name Sextus Pompeius is on the fasti already—that’s what happens when we choose the consuls years in advance and then simply pretend to have them elected.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • The name Sextus Pompeius is on the fasti already—that’s what happens when we choose the consuls years in advance and then simply pretend to have them elected.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • She had produced another boy, called Sextus, much younger than Pompey Strabo, and of much poorer quality.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • The sixth was baptized Sextus, the ninth Nonus, though they were not called so, and he was dissuaded from calling the twelfth Duodecimus only by the certainty that the other boys would miscall him “Dozen.

    The Meeting on the Long Bridge 1901

  • The sixth was baptized Sextus, the ninth Nonus, though they were not called so, and he was dissuaded from calling the twelfth Duodecimus only by the certainty that the other boys would miscall him “Dozen.”

    The Making of an American Riis, Jacob A 1901

  • The sixth was baptized Sextus, the ninth Nonus, though they were not called so, and he was dissuaded from calling the twelfth Duodecimus only by the certainty that the other boys would miscall him "Dozen."

    The Making of an American 1881

  • Descartes tackles the problem of skepticism which had been revived from the ancients such as Sextus Empiricus by authors such as Al-Ghazali [1] and Michel de Montaigne.

    Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • Descartes tackles the problem of skepticism which had been revived from the ancients such as Sextus Empiricus by authors such as Al-Ghazali [1] and Michel de Montaigne.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • The work was again undertaken by Boniface VIII, who had prepared and published an official collection to complete the five existing books; this was known as the "Sextus" (Liber Sextus).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • He was hailed as "Sextus," and bade "welcome" by the bold Roman, who forthwith charged upon him, and drove him round and round the grove till he sought safety and protection in the lap of Lars Porsena herself.

    Queen Hildegarde Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

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