"A blind soldier, Valerius Asper by name, received this answer from the god: that he should mix the blood of a white cock with milk, make an eye ointment therewith, and rub his eyes with it for three days.

I thinke Natalis, Subrius, Flavus, Lucan, Seneca, and Lucius Piso, Asper and Quintilianus.

[1014] 'Asper Incolumi gravitate jocum tentavit.

Hence Asper, the ordinary denomination of silver coin in moderns Turkey is evidently borrowed from the Greek.

The fiue and fourtie thousand Ianizaries dispersed in sundry places of his dominions, at sixe aspers the day, amounteth by the yeere to fiue hundreth, fourescore and eleuen thousand, and three hundreth pounds.

The Master Dassi shipwrights and kalkers, one thousand at fourteene aspers, which amounteth by the yeere, to thirtie thousand, sixe hundred threescore pound.

Indeed, Sulpicius Asper, a centurion, and Subrius Flavius, a military tribune, both belonging to the body-guards, admitted this to him point blank.

Asper, when interrogated by the emperor as to the reason for his attempt, replied: "I could help you in no other way."

Asper's complaint of the insolence of Prospero.

Cereus in vitium flecli, monitoribus asper.

I am, &c. ASPER.

In the following example, therefore, them should be it: "The first has a lenis, and the other an asper over them.

Better thus: "The first has a lenis over it, and the other an asper.

Why is it wrong to say, "The first has a lenis, and the other an asper over them?"

The wide and rich regions controlled by such families usually contributed neither an asper to the sultan's treasury nor a man to the imperial armies.

Addison. 'ferat et rubus asper amomum.' Virg.

C. Iulius Asper (II), C. Iulius Asper.

C. Iulius Asper (II), C. Iulius Asper.

Julianus Asper was a man by no means contemptible, on account of his education and good sense as well.

He exalted him, together with his sons, and after Asper had walked the streets surrounded by I don't know how many fasces he without warning insulted him outrageously and dismissed him to his native place

Anicius Faustus was sent into Asia to govern in place of Asper.

The latter had at first obtained very great honor from Macrinus, who thought he could settle affairs in Asia: afterwards, when he was already en route and was approaching the province (Macrinus had not accorded a favorable reception to the petition forwarded to Caracalla and delivered to him, in which the inhabitants begged that Asper be not sent them as proconsul), the emperor offered him a terrible affront in rejecting him.

It was reported to the prince that Asper had made some improper remarks, and moreover he affected to think that old age and disease constituted a second reason for relieving him of his duties, and therefore he delivered Asia into the keeping of Faustus, a man who had been overlooked in the order of allotment by Severus.

The emperor put him to death in spite of having written concerning him to the senate that Triccianus had been banished from Rome, like Julius Asper, by Macrinus, and that he had restored him.

Nor thou honest; One, that not long since was the buckram Scribe, That would run on mens errands for an Asper, And from such baseness, having rais'd a Stock To bribe the covetous Judge, call'd to the Bar.