Solinus

It seems marvellous that a man should become dictator of the republic of letters by editing "Solinus" and "The Augustan History," however ably; but an achievement like this, not a "Paradise Lost" or a "Werther" was the _sic itur ad astra_ of the time.

Life of John Milton Richard Garnett 1870

Solinus spoke of Βριτόμαρτις Britómartis as a native Cretan name for Artemis, the Greek goddess of moon and hunt, which he claimed had underlyingly meant virgo dulcis 'sweet maiden'1 and Hesychius doubly equates his Cretan gloss βριτύ with Greek γλυκύ 'sweet'.

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C.J. Solinus (Plinii Simia) says, “Indica maria balænas habent ultra spatia quatuor jugerum.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Isidore had borrowed this passage from Solinus, a second-century writer, who in turn had abbreviated the material in question from Pliny the Elder's Natural History of the first century C. E.68 It is important to note that none of the dangers here attributed to menstrual blood were deleterious to human beings.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Note 69: Pliny and Solinus had included their analyses of women's bodies in more general discussions of history, mythology, etc.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Media (a countrie of Asia) as Solinus writeth, toke the name of one Medus, the sonne of Medea and Egeus, kyng of Athenes.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

Solinus, yea & a great many of our new principall writers, whose names you may see about the end of this Preface; euery one of which hath reported more strange things then the Friers between the both?

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Homer an ancient writer affirmeth that, the world being diuided into Asia, Africa, and Europe is an Iland, which is likewise so reported by Strabo in his erst book of Cosmographie, Pomponius Mela in his third booke, Higinius, Solinus, with others.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Homer an ancient writer affirmeth that, the world being diuided into Asia, Africa, and Europe is an Iland, which is likewise so reported by Strabo in his erst book of Cosmographie, Pomponius Mela in his third booke, Higinius, Solinus, with others.

The Worldes Hydrographical Discription 2003

Homer an ancient writer affirmeth that, the world being diuided into Asia, Africa, and Europe is an Iland, which is likewise so reported by Strabo in his erst book of Cosmographie, Pomponius Mela in his third booke, Higinius, Solinus, with others.

The Worldes Hydrographical Discription 2003