"Dux" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... being an Episcopalian), the five classes from the five sets of benches trotted off in long files, one boy after the other, up the five spiral staircases of stone, each class to its destination; and well do I remember how we of the third sat hushed and still, watched by the eye of the dux, until the door opened, and in walked that model of a good Scotchman, the shrewd, intelligent, but warmhearted and kind dominie, ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow
... prophecy is too obscure to admit of a sure interpretation. Five hundred, ten, and five, in Roman numerals, give the letters D X V; which by transposition form the word Dux, ...
— The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory [Purgatorio] • Dante Alighieri
... full year at Winchester, he had signallized himself in so many achievements, in defiance to the laws and regulations of the place, that he was looked upon with admiration, and actually chosen dux, or leader, by a large body of his contemporaries. It was not long before his fame reached the ears of the master, who sent for Mr. Jolter, communicated to him the informations he had received, and ...
— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett
... praedicet? Tertiam enim aetatem hominum videbat, nec erat ei verendum ne vera praedicans de se nimis videretur aut insolens aut loquax. Etenim, ut ait Homerus, ex eius lingua melle dulcior fluebat oratio; quam ad suavitatem nullis egebat corporis viribus. Et tamen dux ille Graeciae nusquam optat ut Aiacis similis habeat decem, sed ut Nestoris, quod si sibi acciderit, non dubitat quin brevi sit Troia peritura. 32 Sed redeo ad me. Quartum ago annum et octogesimum: vellem equidem idem posse gloriari quod Cyrus, sed tamen hoc queo ...
— Cato Maior de Senectute • Marcus Tullius Cicero
... cities, and she was cut off from the sea and from the lower course of her own river. On the other hand, the French and the Norman dukes had found their interest in a close alliance; Norman support had done much to transfer the crown from Laon to Paris, and to make the Dux Francorum and the Rex Francorum the same person. It was the adoption of the French speech and manners by the Normans, and their steady alliance with the French dukes, which finally determined that the ruling element in Gaul should be Romance and not Teutonic, and that, of its Romance ...
— William the Conqueror • E. A. Freeman
... A^{o}. xxxv^{to} et xxxvj^{to} regis E. tercij.] sequens. Anno Domini Millesimo ccc^{mo} lxj^{o} xviij kl. Februar. in festo sancti Mauri abbatis accidit ventus vehemens et terribilis per totam Angliam. Eodem anno fuit secunda pestilencia in qua obiit vir nobilis et Strenuus Henricus Dux Lancastrie. Anno Domini Millesimo [Sidenote: Anno xliij^{o} regis E. iij^{cii}.] ccc^{mo} lxviij^{o} erat tercia pestilencia in qua obiit nobilis domina Blanchia Lancastrie ducissa. que in ecclesia sancti Pauli [Sidenote: ...
— A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 • Anonymous
... comitibus Attis cecinit notha mulier, Thiasus repente linguis trepidantibus ululat, Leve tympanum remugit, cava cymbala recrepant, Viridem citus adit Idam properante pede chorus. 30 Furibunda simul anhelans vaga vadit, animam agens, Comitata tympano Attis per opaca nemora dux, Veluti iuvenca vitans onus indomita iugi: Rapidae ducem sequuntur Gallae properipedem. Itaque ut domum Cybebes tetigere lassulae, 35 Nimio e labore somnum capiunt sine Cerere. Piger his labante langore oculos sopor operit: Abit in quiete molli rabidus furor animi. Sed ubi oris aurei ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus
... vitae Philosophia dux, virtutis indagatrix!-CICERO. ["O Philosophy, conductress of life, searcher ...
— The Disowned, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... hear of no opposition, none was probably made. He was the only person to whom that rank was due; his right could not and does not seem to have been questioned. The Chronicle of Croyland corroborates my opinion, saying, "Accepitque dictus Ricardus dux Glocestriae ilium solennem magistratum, qui duci Humfrido Glocestriae, stante minore aetate regis Henrici, ut regni protector appellaretur, olim contingebat. Ea igitur auctoritate usus est, de consensu & ...
— Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third • Horace Walpole
... possessed the greatest genius for statesmanship, and was clearly made to rule": —"Dictio Taciti floridior uberiorque in Historiarum est libris, pressior, sicciorque in Annalibus. Interim gravis utrobique et disertus. Non alium Historicum aeque lectitaret Cosmus Medices, Hetruriae Dux, vir, si quis alius, civilis prudentiae intelligentis- simus, planeque ad imperandum factus" (Vossius. De Historicis Latinis. Lib. I. c. 30. p. 146). Muretus says the same in the second volume of his Orations (Orat. XVIII.): "Cosmo de' Medici, who was the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, a man ...
— Tacitus and Bracciolini - The Annals Forged in the XVth Century • John Wilson Ross
... portio regio pectori, 20 velut horum consiliorum fonti, debetur. Cum tot regnis ac regibus altissima pax est atque, ut augurari libet, aeterna. Pelluntur nocentes, vigent bonae leges, evehuntur optimae literae. Rex ipse hisce rebus omnibus non solum auctor est ac dux, verum etiam 25 exemplum, primus ipse praestans quod praescribit. Nulli mortalium magis ex animo bene volo quam tibi; et tamen parum abest quin invideam tuae celsitudini, quaetantis bonis fruatur sine me quondam commodorum et incommodorum ...
— Selections from Erasmus - Principally from his Epistles • Erasmus Roterodamus |
