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See also:DENTATUS, MANIUS CURIUS , See also:Roman See also:general, conqueror of the See also:Samnites and See also:Pyrrhus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Epirus, was See also:born of humble parents, and was possibly of See also:Sabine origin. He is said to have been called Dentatus because he was born with his See also:teeth already grown (See also:Pliny, Nat. Hist. vii. 15). Except that he was See also:tribune of the See also:people, nothing certain is known of him until his first See also:consul-See also:ship in no B.C. when, in See also:conjunction with his colleague P. See also:Cornelius See also:Rufinus, he gained a decisive victory over the Samnites, which put an end to a See also:war that had lasted fifty years. He also reduced the revolted Sabines to submission; a large portion of their territory was distributed among the Roman citizens, and the most important towns received the citizenship without the right of voting for magistrates (civitas sine sufjragio). With .the proceeds of the spoils of the war Dentatus cut an artificial channel to carry off the See also:waters of See also:Lake Velinus, so as to drain the valley of Reate. In 275, after Pyrrhus had returned from See also:Sicily to See also:Italy, Dentatus (again consul) took the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field against him. The decisive engagement took See also:place near Beneventum in the See also:Campi Arusini, and resulted in the See also:total defeat of Pyrrhus. Dentatus celebrated a magnificent See also:triumph, in which for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time a number of captured elephants were exhibited. Dentatus was consul for the third time in 274, when he finally crushed the Lucanians and Samnites, and See also:censor in 272. In the latter capacity he began to build an See also:aqueduct to carry the waters of the Anio into the See also:city, but died (27o) before its completion. Dentatus was looked upon as a See also:model of old Roman simplicity and frugality. According to the well-known See also:anecdote, when the Samnites sent ambassadors with costly presents to induce him to exercise his See also:influence on their behalf in the See also:senate, they found
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him sitting on the See also:hearth and preparing his See also:simple See also:meal of roasted turnips. He refused their gifts, saying that earthen dishes were See also:good enough for him, adding that he preferred ruling those who possessed See also:gold to possessing it himself. It is also said that he died so poor that the See also:state was obliged to provide dowries for his daughters. But these and similar anecdotes must be received with caution, and it should be remembered that what was a competence in his See also:day would have been considered poverty by the See also:Romans of later times.
See also:Livy, See also:epitome, 11-14 ; See also:Polybius ii. 19 ; See also:Eutropius ii. 9, 14; See also:Florus i. 18 ; Val. Max. iv. 3, 5, vi. 3, 4 ; See also:Cicero, De senectute, 16 ; See also:Juvenal xi. 78 ; See also:Plutarch, Pyrrhus, 25.
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