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tusculan — ˈtəskyələn adjective Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Latin Tusculanus, from Tusculum, ancient town of Latium + Latin anus an : of or relating to ancient Tusculum … Useful english dictionary
Tusculanæ Disputationes — Les Tusculanes Les Tusculanes font partie des œuvres philosophiques de Cicéron. Dans ces dialogues supposés, l auteur cherche à établir l immortalité de l âme et démontre que le bonheur ne peut se fonder que sur la vertu. Il reprend bien souvent… … Wikipédia en Français
Tusculanæ disputationes — Les Tusculanes Les Tusculanes font partie des œuvres philosophiques de Cicéron. Dans ces dialogues supposés, l auteur cherche à établir l immortalité de l âme et démontre que le bonheur ne peut se fonder que sur la vertu. Il reprend bien souvent… … Wikipédia en Français
Tusculum — Tusculan, adj. /tus kyeuh leuhm/, n. an ancient city of Latium, SE of Rome: Roman villas, esp. that of Cicero. * * * Ancient town, Latium, Italy. Located near Rome, it was a Latin settlement as early as the 1st millennium BC and probably was… … Universalium
Tusculum — Tusculan, adj. /tus kyeuh leuhm/, n. an ancient city of Latium, SE of Rome: Roman villas, esp. that of Cicero … Useful english dictionary
Counts of Tusculum — The counts of Tusculum were the most powerful secular noblemen in Latium, near Rome, in the present day Italy between the 10th and 12th centuries. Several popes and an antipope during the 11th century came from their ranks. They created and… … Wikipedia
Saeculum obscurum — (Latin: the dark age) is a name given to a period in the history of the Papacy during the first half of the 10th century, beginning with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904 and lasting for sixty years until the death of Pope John XII in… … Wikipedia
Damocles — For other uses, see Damocles (disambiguation). In Richard Westall s Sword of Damocles, 1812, the boys of Cicero s anecdote have been changed to maidens for a neoclassical patron, Thomas Hope. Damocles ( … Wikipedia
Frascati — • One of the six suburbicarian (i.e. neighbouring) dioceses from an immemorial date closely related to the Roman Church Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Frascati Frascati … Catholic encyclopedia
Peripatetic school (The) — The Peripatetic school1 Robert W.Sharples THE HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL AND OF ARISTOTLE’S WRITINGS The history of Peripatetic philosophy after Aristotle falls into two phases, divided by the renewal of interest in the works we now possess after… … History of philosophy
