10 POLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VERSO POLLICE»
Discover the use of
verso pollice in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
verso pollice and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Polish literature.
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Nature Embodied: Gesture in Ancient Rome - Strona 63
In describing the movement of the thumb from its place at rest atop the hand (pollicem premere) to its threatening position (in- festus pollex), the phrase verso pollice would then denote the thumb turning upward from the closed fist in the way a ...
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The Satires of Decimus I. Iuvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus: In ...
Ambitious of their voice : then turn, once more, To their vile gains, and farm the common shore ! verso pollice vulgi " Quemlibet occidunt populariter" — literally means, from an affectation of popularity they put to death whomsoever the rabble, ...
Aulus Persius Flaccus, Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, William Gifford, 1817
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The Pedants Revolt: Why Most Things You Think Are Right Are Wrong
It's true that the Romans used hand gestures to indicate their wishes in the gladiatorial arena: Roman satirist Juvenal records gladiators winning applause 'by slaying whoever the mob, with a turn of the thumb [verso pollice], bids them slay'.
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Translated Into English ...
in which every thing is disputed, and nothing concluded: ** verso pollice vulgi “Quemlibet occidunt populariter”literally means, from an affectation of popularity they put to death whomsoever the rabble, by a turn of their thumbs, condemn. Verso ...
Decimus Junius JUVENALIS, William GIFFORD (Editor of the Quarterly Review.), 1806
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Opere dell'abate Melchior Cesarotti padovano. Volume 1. [-40.]: ...
1 giuochi dei gladiatori, i detti munera per eccellenza, esigevano gravissime spese, e perciò uei tempi della repubblica non si davano cie uaa -personaggi più distinti per titoli o per facoltà o V. d.o Verso pollice vulgus. “Terminati i giuochi, il ...
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, 1805
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Religion, Ethnicity, and Identity in Ancient Galilee: A Region in ...
C.E. satirist Juvenal refers to a hand gesture that he calls the verso poll ice, the "turn of the thumb," by means of which ... Describing the unruly masses of Rome, the satirist moans, munera mine edunt et verso pollice vulgus quem iubet ...
Jürgen Zangenberg, Harold W. Attridge, Dale B. Martin, 2007
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Chironomia; or, a Treatise on Rhetorical delivery: comprehending ...
65 ; it is this: U troquc pollice, compresso significare volebant deosculandum csse eum qui bene luserat; contra conversis pollicibus ignave devictum necari jubebant : E0 autrm modo necanturpulires. Et verso pollice vulgi quemlibet occidunt ...
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Chironomia; or, A treatise on rhetorical delivery - Strona 562
6"5 ; it is this : Utroque pollice, compresso significare volebant deosculandum esse eum qui bene luserat ; contra conversis pollicibus ignave devictum necari jubebant : Eo avtem tnodo necantur puli- ces. Et verso pollice vulgi quemlibet ...
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Death in Ancient Rome - Strona 58
Juvenal, for instance, writes in the Satires of those who 'now provide games and, when the people give the order with a turn of the thumb, inflict death to popular acclaim', Munera nunc edunt et, verso pollice vulgus/Cum iubet, occidunt ...
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Nuovo dizionario scientifico e curioso sacro-profano
L' uso del Cubitale interno si è di portar la mano obbliguamenre verso il Condile interno e l' Olecranio , e ciò operando ... L'uso del Metacarpo, o grande Ipotenare si è di muovere il quarto osso del metacarpo verso il pollice, e con questo moto ...
Gianfrancesco Pivati, 1751
