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  • Apocalypse, in Trajan's name, who was called Ulpius, of which the numeral letters form the number 666.

    The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works Jean L��vesque de Burigny 1738

  • The elderly and childless Nerva proved more of a caretaker and was compelled to placate disgruntled elements in the army by adopting the popular, hard-drinking governor of Upper Germany, Marcus Ulpius Traianus Trajan, and anointing him as his successor, thus guarding against another period of instability.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • Marcus Ulpius TRAIANUS (Trajan, b. 53), the descendant of an old Roman colonial family in Spain, was the first emperor born in the provinces.

    2. Conquest and Consolidation 2001

  • Ribero's, dated respectively 1527 and 1529 -- call it "Y de Pinos," and on the globe of Ulpius, to which the year 1542 is assigned, "de Pinos" is clearly marked.

    The Isle Of Pines (1668) and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey Ford Henry Neville

  • Dead to all freshness of feeling, the mind of Ulpius, during the whole term of his wanderings, lay numbed beneath the one idea that possessed it.

    Antonina Wilkie Collins 1856

  • Then as they recollected how diminished were their numbers, how arduous had been their first defence against a few, and how impossible would be a second defence against many -- from the boldest to the feeblest, a panic seized on them; and, regardless of Ulpius, regardless of honour, regardless of the gods, they turned with one accord and fled from the place.

    Antonina Wilkie Collins 1856

  • 'Your servant Ulpius stops not on the journey that leads him to your repeopled shrines!

    Antonina Wilkie Collins 1856

  • Filled with these thoughts, Ulpius paced backwards and forwards in his solitary retreat, utterly abandoned by the exaltation of feeling which had restored to his faculties in the morning, the long-lost vigour of their former youth.

    Antonina Wilkie Collins 1856

  • In the meantime, do not imagine, Ulpius, that I connect you in any way with this wicked and unworthy deception!

    Antonina Wilkie Collins 1856

  • Ulpius, unable to support her longer, laid her against the little heap of turf which marked the position of the young chieftain's grave.

    Antonina Wilkie Collins 1856

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