"origin" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A perusal of the names of Roman physicians will show that the majority are wholly or partly Greek and that many of the physicians were of servile origin.
- (A Greek cognomen suggests servile origin.)
- The first is the midwifery was not a profession to which freeborn women of families that had enjoyed free status of several generations were attracted; therefore it seems that most midwives were of servile origin.
- Following the decimation of many clans' noble Imajaghan caste in the colonial wars of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Ineslemen gained leadership in some clans, despite their often servile origins.
- Photius describes him as a threptos, a kind of assistant of servile origin, to Cinnaeus and states that he was later a secretary to Heraclides Lembus.
- It is also of note that Junia possesses a Latin name which could have stemmed from servile origins.
- Sabinus was of servile origin, and, though ignorant, he affected to be a man of learning.
- Many ministers still came from servile or peasant origins.
- Aulus Gellius recorded the tradition that Statius was a name originally given to persons of servile origin.
- Roman and Greek sources describe his servile origins and later marriage to a daughter of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Rome's first Etruscan king, who was assassinated in 579 BC.
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