The nose was large, distinctively Roman, yielding him a hawklike appearance, but it was his eyes which fascinated me.

The passages should be compared for, as M. Gaston Boissier has pointed out, the difference in the point of view of the two men is here illustrated by the fact that Varro appeals to purely Roman deities, while Virgil invokes the literary gods of Greece.

Yet the precision with which it was carried out and the magnitude of the scale on which its operations were conducted were so peculiarly Roman, that the spirit of the Roman economy and its grandeur whether for good or evil are pre-eminently conspicuous in its monetary transactions.

In Rochester, serene and yet active, the very ancient seat of a bishopric, we have something essentially Roman, the fortress on the Watling Street guarding the passage of the Medway, precisely as Piacenza was and is a Roman fortress upon the Emilian Way guarding the passage of the Po.

In this case, however, with a pious regard for forms that is genuinely Roman, in order to avoid any error, only a minority of the tribes, and therefore not the "people," completed the act of election.

Hercegovina and eastern Bosnia have always been predominantly Orthodox, Dalmatia and western Bosnia predominantly Roman Catholic.

The Magnificent left seven children by his wife Clarice, of the princely Roman house of the Orsini.

The theological knowledge and learning were wanting which would have been familiar with the broad line of difference between what is Catholic and what is specially Roman.

Originally the populus comprised strictly Roman citizens, those who belonged to the original tribes, and who had the right of suffrage.

Norman law, substantially Roman; law brought to England by the Normans.

His young face had the sober, chiseled earnestness that had been typically Roman in the sterner days of the Republic.

But he made the mistake, characteristically Roman, of thinking history more real than legend; and, trying to lead epic in this direction, supernatural machinery would inevitably go too.

Poor, hapless Roman, little wottest thou The weary end of thine oppressed life. LUCIUS.

No Roman, whose name is associated with Agrarian laws, ever thought of touching private property, or of meddling with it, illegally, in any way.

" Leo was born, in the latter part of the fourth century, at Rome, of noble parents, and was intensely Roman in all his aspirations.

In other cases, notably Roman civilization and western civilization, religious ideology was subordinated to secular interests.

The Latini had no vote at Rome, no right of holding offices, and were practically Roman subjects.