10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONGIARY»
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of ...
comprising the twofold advantage of a philosophical and an alphabetical
arrangement, with appropriate engravings Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward
Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose. CONGIARY. CONGRA TULATE.
Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1845
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of ...
The first Congiary of which we read in Roman history, was that of Ancus Martius,
who distributed 6000 modii (pecks) of salt to the people. (I'lin. xxxi. 41.) Livy
mentions one occasion, u.c. 539, on which, during the celebration of the Ludi
Romani ...
Encyclopaedia, Edward Smedley, 1845
3
Encyclopaedia metropolitana: or Universal dictionary of ...
Lucullus, on his return from Asia, gave a hundred thousand casks of Greek wine
as a Congiary. Julius Cresar imitated Lucullus, and on the banquets by which his
Triumphs were celebrated, sent rich wines to each table with profuse liberality.
Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1845
4
The history of Rome: from the death of Antoninus Pius, to ...
Sued to by the Jazyget for a Peace , 72. Grants an Edict in Favour of the
Christians, 13;'. 16*3. Never persecutes them after this , 164 Speech to ths Army,
86. Gives Ccmmodui the Toga Virilis , ibid. Gives a Congiary, 8c. Returns to Italy,
ibid.
5
Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and ...
□Con^larium CONGIARIUM, Congiary, among medalists, a gift or donalive
reprcset ted on a mecial. The word Congo. * See Pa nUU. i Extent. History un
certain und fabulous comes from the Latin congius ; because the first presents
made to ...
Encyclopaedia Britannica, James Millar, 1810
At times Elagabalus gave money ; witness the congiary and donative to celebrate
his marriage with Cornelia Paula, when, as Herodian tells us, not only the people
, but also 318 THE EXTRAVAGANCES OF THE EMPEROR ELAGABALUS.
7
Records of Roman History: From Cnæus Pompeius to Tiberius ...
6, speaking of Trajan's liberality, says that " a congiary was given to the people
and a donative to the soldiers when Trajan first arrived in Rome ;" which
circumstance, in the absence of a tribunician date, would clearly indicate this PR
to be the ...
8
The medallic history of Imperial Rome: from the First ...
Tr^is, or some other Congiary, (for Suetonius says that he gave PI. XVII. 7. them
often) is recorded on the Medal before us, which bears the Congius or Measure,
and around it TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG. I conceive Clavdivs- however the it ...
have my miseries, heaven knows. I — who was born with a daring ambition to be
numbered with that congiary of female master-spirits — that constellation of
concentrated essences — that congregation of congiary geniuses : — The
Cornwell ...
Monthly literary register, 1833
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A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences: ...
CONGIARY, Congiarium, in Roman antiquity, a kind of donative of wine or oil,
bestowed on that people by their emperors, and so called from the congius,
wherewith it was measured out to them. Sometimes, indeed, the congiary was
made in ...
