Which preposition to use with roman

of Occurrences 44%

He was a Roman of old times, who lived at T'kout at the period of the Romans.

in Occurrences 32%

This Roman had the advantage, until a bird of the kind called jays came to the assistance of Djokhrane, and pecked the Roman in the eyes until he saved his adversary.

than Occurrences 8%

This creation of an epos, a tragedy, and a comedy in the Roman language, and that by a man who was more Roman than Greek, was historically an event; but we cannot speak of his labours as having any artistic value.

to Occurrences 6%

He struck many a Roman to the ground.

by Occurrences 6%

Both contemplate a violent death; a [Greek: biathanatos]death that is [Greek: biaios]: but the difference isthat the Roman by the word "sudden" means an unlingering death: whereas the Christian Litany by "sudden" means a death without warning, consequently without any available summons to religious preparation.

with Occurrences 5%

It is the blending of the old Greek and Roman with the Gothic, and is called the Renaissance.

en Occurrences 4%

Le style roman en France dans l'architecture et la décoration des monuments.

for Occurrences 3%

It may perhaps be paralleled with the love of the Roman for processions, e.g. the lustrations of farm, city, and army, and with his instinctive desire for aid and counsel in all important matters both of public and private life, shown in the consilium of the paterfamilias and of the magistrate.

from Occurrences 3%

So confused was the contention, so disordered the combat, that men as they strove together hardly knew Roman from Briton, friend from foe, save only by the cry they shouted, and by the tongue they spoke in the stour.

over Occurrences 3%

A legate in Ireland who seemed to "play the Roman over them" was curtly told by the king's officers that he must do their bidding or leave the country.

without Occurrences 2%

When FREDERICK the Great captured Silesia from a Roman without any apparent pretext, was he not an instrument of Providence?

as Occurrences 2%

[Footnote 19: The Greek word is [Greek: obolos] a coin which in the fifth century B.C. would have amounted to considerably more than the Roman as; but as time went on the value of the [Greek: obolos] diminished indefinitely, so that glossaries eventually translate it as as in Latin.]

at Occurrences 2%

Whether or not Vergil remained an Epicurean to the end, we must, to be fair, give credit to that philosophy for much that is most poetical in his later work,a romantic charm in the treatment of nature, a deep comprehension of man's temper, a broader sympathy with humanity and a clearer understanding of the difference between social virtue and mere ritualistic correctness than was to be expected of a Roman at this time.

like Occurrences 2%

But if he has given us Memmius's own words, they must have rung in the ears of many an honest Roman like the trumpet-notes of that still more eloquent tribune whose body, ten years before, had been hurled into the Tiber.

about Occurrences 2%

As we read further the singularly primitive and barbarous ritual of the service of knightly reception in the twelfth century, one is persuaded that the words exhale a German odor, and have nothing Roman about them.

beyond Occurrences 1%

I came because my father tells me you are a Roman beyond praise.

via Occurrences 1%

And, lastly, the vestiges of a true Roman via running from Shoreham towards Lewes, at a small distance above this town have been lately discovered by an ingenious gentleman truly conversant in matters of this nature.

between Occurrences 1%

Nothing can better illustrate the contrast in the mind of the Roman between passionate love and serious marriage than a comparison of this lovely poem with those which tell the sordid tale of the poet's intrigues with Lesbia (Clodia).

into Occurrences 1%

He was a Carthaginian slave, born 185 B.C., but was educated by a wealthy Roman into whose hands he fell, and ever after associated with the best society and travelled extensively in Greece.

Which preposition to use with  roman