Context date January 2011 Sonnet 140 poem Be wise as thou art cruel Do not press My tongue tied patience with too much disdain, Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express The manner of my pity wanting pain. If I might teach thee wit Better it were, Though not to love, yet love to tell me so, As testy sick men, when their deaths be near, No news but health from their physicians know. For if I should despair I should grow mad, And in my madness might speak ill of thee Now this ill wresting world is grown so bad, Mad sland rers by mad ears believ d be. That I may not be so, nor thou belied, Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide. poem Interpretations Edward Fox actor Edward Fox , for the 2002 compilation album , When Love Speaks EMI Classics EMI External links http www.shakespeare online.com sonnets 140.html www.shakespeare online.com Category Sonnets by William Shakespeare Category British poems ... more details
Leiv Stensland born 6 May 1934 in Odda is a Norwegian politician for the Norwegian Labour Party Labour Party . He was elected to the Storting Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland in 1985, and was re elected on one occasion. Stensland was a member of Odda municipal council Norway municipal council from 1959 to 1975 and 1979 to 1985, serving the last period as mayor. Outside of politics, he worked as an electrician from 1953 to 1978. References stortingetbio LEST br Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Stensland, Leiv ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 6 May 1934 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Stensland, Leiv Category 1934 births Category Living people Category Labour Party Norway politicians Category Members of the Parliament of Norway Category Mayors of places in Hordaland Category People from Odda Norway mayor stub Norway politician 1930s stub no Leiv Stensland ... more details
Tattenai or Tatnai or Sisinnes was a Biblical character and a Achaemenid Empire Persian Satrap governor of the province west of the Euphrates River during the time of Zerubbabel and the reign of Darius I . ref http www.britannica.com eb article 9001332 Tattenai. Encyclop dia Britannica . 2007. Encyclop dia Britannica Online. 4 Sept. 2007 ref He is best known for questioning King Darius in regards to the rebuilding of a temple for the Lord, God of Israel. The rebuilding was being led by Joshua the High Priest Jeshua, son of Jozadak , and Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, and had been issued by King Cyrus I. Tattenai wrote a letter to King Darius to ask of these statements were true, and then King Darius wrote a letter confirming that the statements were true. In the letter, Darius asked that the people do everything they can to support this rebuilding financially, and that they do nothing to impede it lest they suffer harsh punishment. Notes and references Reflist MEast hist stub Hebrew Bible stub Category Ancient Israel and Judah Category Hebrew Bible people Category Achaemenid satraps Category Return to Zion hr Tatenai sh Tatenai ... more details
Orphan date March 2009 Wikify date April 2010 Is tr ag in ces i mbiam ... is the first line and title of a poem which survives on two sixteenth century vellum manuscripts, and one on paper from the second decade of the seventeenth. The poem probably dates from the earlier half of the Middle Irish period. It is in the metre called rannaigecht recomarcach , or rannaigecht bec. The poem extracts blockquote Is tr ag in ces i mbiam, n fes c a h air i mbaam d nam co ll ic ar figill b s nach inill a taam. blockquote blockquote Wretched is the weak state in which we are, it is not known when we may die meanwhile let us make our vigil lest we be not prepared. blockquote References Two Religious Poems in Irish , Brian Cu v , Celtica 20, pp. 73 84, 1988. DEFAULTSORT Is Truag In Ces I Mbiam Category Irish poems Category Early Irish literature Category Irish literature Category Irish language literature Category Medieval literature ... more details
primary source date April 2011 Arthur Douglas Hair was founder of the Last Post Fund in 1909. One of Hair s military brothers, James Daly, died without family or the means to have a proper funeral . Hair was outraged by the callous disregard for the deceased man s past military service ref name lestweforget Durflinger, Serge. Lest We Forget. Montreal Last Post Fund,2000 5. ref . Hair wrote a letter to The Gazette which date April 2011 and went on a mission to ensure that the military dead no matter what their lot in life, were worthy of more reverential treatment ref name lestweforget . Now The Last Post Fund provides military men and their spouses with a dignified funeral and burial within more than 2,000 cemeteries across Canada and at its own military cemetery , the National Field of Honour in Pointe Claire , Quebec , where some 20,000 military and close ones are buried. References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Hair, Arthur Category Canadian activists activist stub ... more details
File Bannik.jpg thumb Bannik Bannik is the Public bathing bathhouse banya spirit in Slavic mythology . ref name Alexinsky Alexinsky, G. Slavonic Mythology in New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology . Prometheus Press, 1973, p. 287 88 ref Slavic bathhouses resemble sauna s, with an inner steaming room and an outer changing room. A place where women gave childbirth birth and practiced divination s, the bathhouse was strongly endowed with vital forces. The third firing or fourth, depending on tradition was reserved for the Bannik, and, given his inclination to invite demons and forest spirits to share his bath, no Christianity Christian images were allowed lest they offend the occupants. If disturbed by an intruder while washing, the Bannik might pour boiling water over him, or even strangle him. ref name Alexinsky The Bannik had the ability to predict the future. One consulted him by standing with one s back exposed in the half open door of the bath. The Bannik would gently stroke one s back if all boded well but if trouble lay ahead, he would strike with his claws. ref name Alexinsky See also Bagiennik Domovoi Ovinnik Slavic creatures of folklore References Reflist Slavmyth Category Russian loanwords Category Slavic legendary creatures Category Tutelary af Bannik bg cs Bannik fr Bannik hr Banik pl Bannik pt Bannik ru sl Banik ... more details
Other uses Unreferenced date August 2010 Infobox single Name Judge Not Cover Artist Bob Marley from Album B side Released 1962 Format Recorded Genre Ska Length Label Beverley s Writer Bob Marley Producer Leslie Kong Certification Last single This single Judge Not br 1961 br Next single One Cup of Coffee br 1961 br Judge Not is the first single music single Bob Marley recorded. It was released in 1962 in music 1962 , only in Jamaica on Leslie Kong label Beverley s . With a ska beat, Marley has a youthful voice, as it was his first recorded song. Though Judge Not failed to achieve much success, Marley was not discouraged and continued to record music. Judge Not was rereleased in the Songs of Freedom album in 1992 as well as other compilations. The song was also covered by Sublime band Sublime , and can be found on the box set Everything Under the Sun . The song is about morality, and may have been based on the Biblical quote The Mote and the Beam Judge not lest ye be judged . Some of the song lyrics are paraphrased in the background vocals of the later Marley hit Could You Be Loved . Bob Marley Category Bob Marley songs Category 1962 songs Category Songs written by Bob Marley Category 1962 singles Category Debut singles Category English language songs Category Songs produced by Leslie Kong 1960s song stub de Judge Not it Judge Not pt Judge Not ... more details
Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Argyll after the region of Argyll in Scotland . Her motto is ne obliviscaris lest we forget . HMS Argyll 1722 , a 50 gun fourth rate ship of the line , launched in 1650 as the 38 gun President , renamed HMS Bonadventure in 1660, rebuilt four times and renamed HMS Argyll in 1715. She was sunk in 1748 as a Breakwater structure breakwater . HMS Argyll 1904 , a Devonshire class cruiser 1903 Devonshire class armoured cruiser commissioned in 1905. She ran aground on the Inchcape Bell Rock at the head of the Firth s of Firth of Forth Forth and Firth of Tay Tay in 1915. HMS Argyll F231 , a Type 23 frigate Type 23 Duke class frigate commissioned in May 1991. She has been involved in a number of deployments, most successfully during the Sierra Leone an Civil War in 2000 including Operation Barras , and Operation Telic IV in the Persian Gulf from February August 2005. References Colledge Shipindex DEFAULTSORT Argyll, Hms Category Royal Navy ship names es HMS Argyll sl HMS Argyll fi HMS Argyll ... more details
Infobox Korean name hangul hanja rr Bulssi Japbyeon mr Pulssi Chappy n The Bulssi Japbyeon roughly translated as Buddha s Nonsense is a late 14th century Korean Neo Confucian polemical critique of Buddhism by Jeong Dojeon . In this work he carried out his most comprehensive refutation of Buddhism, singling out Buddhist doctrines and practices for detailed criticism. Jeong stated that this book was written with the objective of refuting Buddhism once and for all lest it destroy morality and eventually humanity itself. The charges leveled against Buddhism in the Bulssi japbyeon constitute a full inventory of the various arguments made by Confucian s and Neo Confucian s from the time of the introduction of Buddhism into East Asia during the 2nd century CE. These arguments are arranged in eighteen sections, each of which criticises a particular aspect of Buddhist doctrine or practice. See also Korean Confucianism Korean philosophy Religions of Korea External links http www.acmuller.net jeong gihwa bulssijapbyeon.html Full English translation of the Bulssi japbyeon with source text Category History of Buddhism Category Korean Confucianism Category Korean literature Category Religion in Korea ko ... more details
The Winds of Change and Other Stories is a collection of Short story short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov , published in 1983 by Doubleday publisher Doubleday . Contents About Nothing 1977 A Perfect Fit short story A Perfect Fit 1981 Belief short story Belief 1953 Death of a Foy 1980 Fair Exchange? 1979 For the Birds short story For the Birds 1980 Found 1978 Good Taste 1976 How It Happened 1979 Ideas Die Hard 1957 Ignition Point 1981 It Is Coming 1979 The Last Answer 1980 The Last Shuttle 1981 Lest We Remember 1982 Nothing for Nothing 1979 One Night of Song 1982 The Smile That Loses 1982 Sure Thing short story Sure Thing 1977 To Tell at a Glance 1983 first publication in this form The Winds of Change 1982 To Tell at a Glance was previously published in an edited version in 1977. References reflist refbegin Isaac Asimov, The Winds of Change , Granada 1983 Panther, 1984 Doubleday 1984, ISBN 0 586 05743 9 refend br Asimov story collections Category Science fiction short story collections by Isaac Asimov Winds of Change, The Category 1983 short story collections fr Les Vents du changement it Il vento cambiato ja ro V ntul schimb rii ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Mergeto Culhwch ac Olwen date December 2009 Goleuddydd light of day from the Welsh language Welsh golau , light , and dydd , day , in the Middle Welsh prose tale Culhwch ac Olwen , is the daughter of Amlawdd Wledig , and is desired by Cilydd , who marries her. She becomes pregnant with his child, but becomes mad and turns to wandering the countryside. When she is near to giving birth, her senses return, and she takes shelter with a swineherd. Frightened by the pigs, she gives birth to a boy, apparently in a pig run. The swineherd takes the baby away to be baptised as Culhwch he becomes the protagonist of Culhwch and Olwen . Following the birth, Goleuddydd becomes fatally ill and, before dying, exhorts her husband not to remarry until he sees a briar with two blossoms on her grave. Cilydd agrees, and Goleuddydd eventually dies. Goleuddydd orders her confessor to visit her grave every year and keep it well trimmed, lest anything should grow there. Cilydd sends an attendant to her grave every day, to look for the briar. After seven years of this, the confessor neglects his duties. One day whilst out hunting, apparently several years later, Cilydd happens upon the grave, and sees upon it a briar with two blossoms. He takes this as a sign to remarry. He kills King Doged at some point and marries his widow. Category Welsh mythology Category Arthurian characters de Goleuddydd it Goleuddydd ... more details
unreferenced date August 2011 The C S th IPA gd ku i of Scottish mythology is an enormous, otherworldly hound, said to haunt the Scottish Highlands . Roughly the size of a cow or large calf, the C S th was said to be dark green in color with shaggy fur and a long braided or curled tail. The C S th was feared as a harbinger of death and would appear to bear away the soul of a person to the afterlife similar to the manner of the Grim Reaper . According to legend, the creature was capable of hunting silently, but would occasionally let out three terrifying barks that could be heard for long distances, including by ships at sea. This was said to be a warning to farmers to lock up their women, lest the beast abduct them and take them to a fairy mound lang gd s thean to supply milk for the children of the fae lang gd aos s daoine s th . C S th literally means barrow hound . Supernatural dogs in Celtic myths are usually completely black, or white with red ears. The C S th s coloration is therefore highly unusual, although it may be derived from the green color often worn by Celtic fairies. Notes references group The Complete Sherlock Holmes 1992 See also Aos S Black dog ghost Black dog Black Shuck Cat S th Fairies DEFAULTSORT Cu Sith Category Scottish legendary creatures Category Mythological dogs celt myth stub de Cu Sith ja ... more details
The Chichevache is a mythological European monster fabled to feed on good women. In Geoffrey Chaucer s Canterbury Tales , this human faced cow is perpetually starved to skin and bone due to the scarcity of obedient and faithful wives. The Bicorne monster Bicorne or Bycorne, a counterpart to the Chichevache which fed on obedient and kind husbands, was reputedly fat and plump because of the plentiful supply of such men. Chaucer may have borrowed the French term chichifache thin face and put it with vache cow to make the similar term chichevache thin or meagre cow . ref http home.swipnet.se w 48250 mythology c chichevache.html Chichevache Bot generated title ref D. Laing Purves notes that The origin of the fable was French but John Lydgate Lydgate has a ballad on the subject. Chichevache literally means niggardly or greedy cow. ref Gutenberg no 2383 name The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems ref Here is the paragraph where the word appears, in the Clerk s Tale O noble wyves, full of heigh prudence, Lat noon no humylitee youre tonge naille Ne nor lat no clerk have cause or diligence To write of yow a storie of swich such mervaille, As of Grisildis Griselda , pacient and kynde, Lest Chichivache yow swelwe swallow in hire entraille. References references External links http www.bookrags.com ebooks 2383 215.html Nuttall Category Medieval European legendary creatures europe myth stub legendary creature stub ... more details
Ancient Greek painters Aristides of Thebes was an Ancient Greece ancient Greek Painting painter of the 4th century BC. He is said to have excelled in expression. For example, a picture of his representing a dying mother s fear lest her infant should suck death from her breast was much celebrated. He also painted one of Alexander the Great s battles. One of his pictures was said to have been bought by King Attalus for 100 talent weight talents . References 1911 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Aristides Of Thebes ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Aristides Of Thebes Category Ancient Greek painters Category Ancient Thebans Category Art of ancient Boeotia Category Painters of Alexander the Great Category Pergamon Category 4th century BC Greek people Ancient Greece bio stub Greece painter stub ca Aristides de Tebes de Aristeides von Theben II es Ar stides pintor hu Ariszteid sz fest nl Aristides kunstschilder pl Arystydes z Teb ru sk Aristeides z T b ... more details
Bussa was the capital of northern Borgu , in northern Nigeria . It was the farthest navigable point on the Niger River , just above the rapids. The town site is now covered by Lake Kainji , which was created in 1968 with the construction of the Lake Kainji dam . The town was re located to what is now called New Bussa . In 1806, British explorer Mungo Park explorer Mungo Park drowned while on his second expedition to trace the course of the Niger River. During 1894 1898 its possession was disputed by Great Britain and France. In 1897, Bussa became part of the British Niger Coast protectorate. The French Occupation of Bussa and Borgu has been recorded in the book Campaigning on the upper Nile and Niger by Seymour Vandeleur i.e. Cecil Foster Seymour , published in 1898 Methuen & co., . Richard Lander 1804 1834 an explorer relates that after the death of Mungo Park the inhabitants of Bussa were attacked by a raging epidemic, which was regarded as a visitation from heaven. Take care not to touch the whites lest you perish like the people... External links http www.onlinenigeria.com travel index.asp Nigeria Travel see Kainji National Park Reclus, Elis e, The Earth and Its Inhabitants ... West Africa D. Appleton and Company 1892 1911 coord 10 19 N 4 36 E region NG NI type city display title Category French West Africa Category Populated places in Niger State NigerNG geo stub de Bussa Nigeria fr Boussa pl Bussa ... more details
Athanasius of Balad 634 &ndash 688 AD was a medieval scholar and the patriarch of Antioch , Syria . A Christian monophysite , he devoted himself to Greek language Greek philosophy . He produced commentaries and translations of Greek texts into Syriac . Quotes For a terrible report about dissipated Christians has come to the hearing of our humble self. Greedy men, who are slaves of the belly, are heedlessly and senselessly taking part with the pagans in feasts together, wretched women mingle anyhow with the pagans unlawfully and indecently, and all at times eat without distinction from their sacrifices. They are going astray in their neglect of the prescriptions and exhortations of the apostles who often would cry out about this to those who believe in Christ , that they should distance themselves from fornication, from what is strangled and from blood, and from the food of pagan sacrifices, lest they be by this associates of the demons and of their unclean table. ref http christianorigins.com islamrefs.html athanasiusbalad External References to Islam Bot generated title ref References Reflist Persondata name Athanasius of Balad alternative names short description date of birth 634 place of birth date of death 688 place of death DEFAULTSORT Athanasius of Balad Category 634 births Category 688 deaths Category Christian scholars Category Syriac archbishops Category Syriac historians Category 7th century historians Category 7th century archbishops Category Patriarchs of Antioch bishop stub it Attanasio di Balad ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Oot & Aboot Type Album Artist Real McKenzies Cover Oot & Aboot.jpg Released 2003 Recorded 2003 Genre Celtic Punk Length Label Honest Don s Producer ??? Last album Loch d and Loaded br 2001 This album Oot & Aboot br 2003 Next album 10,000 Shots br 2005 Album ratings rev1 Allmusic rev1score rating 3 5 ref Mason, Stewart Allmusic class album id r640245 pure url yes Review Oot & Aboot . Allmusic . Retrieved December 19, 2009 ref Automatically generated by DASHBot Oot & Aboot is the fourth album by the band Real McKenzies , released in 2003. Track listing Cross the Ocean Droppin Like Flies Ye Banks and Braes Get Lost Lest We Forget Heather Bells Dance Around the Whisky Oot & Aboot Shit Outta Luck Jennifer Que Drink the Way I Do The Night the Lights Went Out in Scotland Taylor Made External links http realmckenzies.com realmckenzies.com References Reflist Category 2003 albums Category The Real McKenzies albums scn Oot & Aboot ... more details
Unreferenced date February 2007 Sonnet 71 No longer mourn for me when I am dead br Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell br Give warning to the world that I am fled br From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell br Nay, if you read this line, remember not br The hand that writ it for I love you so br That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot br If thinking on me then should make you woe. br O, if, I say, you look upon this verse br When I perhaps compounded am with clay, br Do not so much as my poor name rehearse. br But let your love even with my life decay, br Lest the wise world should look into your moan br And mock you with me after I am gone. Sonnet 71 is one of The Sonnets 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare . It s a member of the The Sonnets Fair Youth Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Interpretations Peter Bowles , for the 2002 compilation album , When Love Speaks EMI Classics EMI Category Sonnets by William Shakespeare Category British poems pl Sonet 71 William Szekspir ... more details
Sonnet 89 Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault, br And I will comment upon that offence br Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt, br Against thy reasons making no defence. br Thou canst not, love, disgrace me half so ill, br To set a form upon desired change, br As I ll myself disgrace knowing thy will, br I will acquaintance strangle, and look strange br Be absent from thy walks and in my tongue br Thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell, br Lest I, too much profane, should do it wrong, br And haply of our old acquaintance tell. br For thee, against my self I ll vow debate, br For I must ne er love him whom thou dost hate. Sonnet 89 is one of The Sonnets 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare . It s a member of the The Sonnets Fair Youth Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Synopsis The poet tells a youth that he can say he abandoned the poet for some fault and he will admit it. The poet will deliberately absent himself and stop discussing the youth, since he cannot even like himself if the youth no longer cares for him. Category Sonnets by William Shakespeare Category British poems nl Sonnet 89 ... more details
The Chathrand Voyage is a fantasy fiction fantasy book series written by Robert V.S. Redick . It is published by Gollancz Publishing in Great Britain and Canada, and Del Rey Books Del Rey Publishing in the United States. Premise On the fictional world of Alifros, a conspiracy is hatched by the Emperor of the great Empire of Arqual to plunge their rival empire, the Mzithrin, into civil war. The captain and crew of the IMS Chathrand , an ancient and powerful Great Ship, are dispatched supposedly on a mission of peace to deliver a treaty bride for a Mzithrini prince to wed, but in reality are setting into motion a series of events designed to destroy the Mzithrin from within. Unknown to them, a powerful sorcerer is planning to use this plot against the conspirators themselves turning the destruction back on the Empire of Arqual. The young treaty bride Thasha Isiq , a bonded servant or tarboy Pazel Pathkendle and various allies discover these nested intrigues and resolve to thwart them, lest war ravage the whole of the known world. Books in the series class wikitable border 1 cellspacing 0 cellpadding 0 Title align right 1. The Red Wolf Conspiracy align right 2. The Ruling Sea align right 3. The River of Shadows align right 4. The Night of the Swarm External links http www.redwolfconspiracy.com NewPages books.html Official website Category Fantasy novel series Chathrand Voyage ... more details
File 1904 Charles Chadwick.JPG right thumb 300px Chadwick at the 1904 Summer Olympics. Charles Chadwick November 19, 1874 &ndash September 28, 1953 was an United States American Track and field track and field athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics . He was born in Brooklyn and died in Boston, Massachusetts . In 1904 he finished fourth in Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics Men s hammer throw hammer throw competition and fifth in the Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics Men s shot put shot put event . Following his athletic career, he became a sportswriter for New York World , a syndicated columnist and an author of at lest two books. External links Portal Biography http users.skynet.be hermandw olymp ath03usm.html list of American athletes Find a Grave 8458575 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Chadwick, Charles ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American hammer thrower and shot putter DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1874 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1953 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Chadwick, Charles Category 1874 births Category 1953 deaths Category American shot putters Category American hammer throwers Category Olympic track and field athletes of the United States Category Athletes track and field at the 1904 Summer Olympics US hammerthrow athletics bio stub de Charles Chadwick Leichtathlet it Charles Chadwick ... more details
Infobox settlement name N sn s settlement type Municipality native name pushpin map Azerbaijan pushpin mapsize 300 coordinates region AZ subdivision type Country subdivision name flag Azerbaijan subdivision type1 Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan Autonomous republic subdivision name1 Nakhchivan subdivision type2 Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan Rayon subdivision name2 Ordubad Rayon Ordubad leader title leader name established title established date area total km2 area footnotes population as of population total 1892 population footnotes citation needed date October 2010 population density km2 timezone Azerbaijan Time AZT utc offset 4 timezone DST Azerbaijan Time AZT utc offset DST 5 latd 38 latm 57 lats 11 latNS N longd 46 longm 01 longs 46 longEW E coordinates display inline,title elevation m area code website N sn s lang hy , Nunis or , Vobevanis also, Nyusnyus is a village and municipality in the Ordubad Rayon of Nakhchivan , Azerbaijan . It has a population of 1,892. History One of the lest investigated places in Nakhichevan. Nunis was famous for St. Gevorg church, supposedly built in 12 13th centuries and had a number of acolytes. According to the dates on the graves the village population left the village in 18th century. References Reflist GEOnet2 32FA8814FFC93774E0440003BA962ED3 Ordubad Rayon DEFAULTSORT Nusnus Category Populated places in Ordubad Rayon Nakhchivan geo stub az N sn s hy ... more details
for the martyr Vettius Epagathus Orphan date February 2009 Epagathus was an Ancient Rome Ancient Roman politician of the early third century. He was a profligate freedman , who along with Theocritus Roman politician Theocritus , a personage of the same class and stamp with himself, exercised unbounded influence over Caracalla , and was retained in the service of his successor. After the disastrous Battle of Antioch 218 battle of Antioch in 218, he was despatched by Macrinus to place Diadumenianus under the protection of the Parthian Empire Parthian king, Artabanus IV of Parthia Artabanus IV . At a subsequent period we find that the death of the celebrated Domitius Ulpianus was ascribed to his machinations, although the causes and circumstances of that event are involved in deep obscurity. Alexander Severus , apprehensive lest some tumult should arise at Rome, were he openly to take vengeance on Epagathus, nominated him prefect of History of Roman Egypt Egypt . But soon afterwards Severus recalled Epagathus from there and caused him to be conducted to Crete , and there Epagathus was quietly put to death. ref Dion. Cass. lxxvii. 21, lxxviii. 39, lxxx. 2. cited by Ramsay ref References SmithDGRBM author William Ramsay Footnotes reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Epagathus ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Category Political office holders in ancient Rome Category Emperor s slaves and freedmen Category 3rd century Romans AncientRome bio stub ... more details
Sabinus of Heraclea was bishop of Heraclea in Thrace , and a leader of the party and sect of Macedonius . He was the author of a collection of the Acts of the councils of the Catholic Church, from the First Council of Nicaea council of Nicaea to his own time. William Cave ref Historia Literaria i. 411. ref fixes the date at which Sabinus flourished as c. 425. The church history of Sabinus was much used by Socrates of Constantinople in his Ecclesiastical History , who speaks of it as untrustworthy, because Sabinus was partisan, and omitted, and even wilfully altered, facts and statements adverse to his views and interests. ref Socr. i. 8 ii. 15. ref Socrates shews how Sabinus tries to disparage the fathers of Nicaea in the face of the contrary evidence of Eusebius , and makes no mention whatever of Macedonius, lest he should have to describe his deeds. Baronius ref ad ann. 325, xxxix., ad ann. 344, iii. etc. ref speaks strongly of Sabinus s unscrupulous handling of history, calls him homo mendacissimus, and suggests that Sozomen gives a garbled account of the election of Athanasius , ex officina Sabini. Notes Reflist Source s Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century Dictionary S Sabinus, bp. of Heraclea Category 5th century bishops Category Church Fathers Category 5th century Byzantine people ca Sab d Heraclea pt Sabino de Heracl ia ... more details
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