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See also:NAVIUS, ATTUS , in See also:Roman legendary See also:history, a famous augur during the reign of Tarquinius See also:Priscus. When the latter desired to See also:double the number of the equestrian centuries, Navius opposed him, declaring that it must not be done unless the omens were propitious, and, as a See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of his See also:powers of See also:divination, cut through a See also:whetstone with a See also:razor. Navius's statue with veiled See also:head was afterwards shown in the comitium; the whet-See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone and razor were buried in the same See also:place, and a puteal placed over them. Hard by was a sacred fig-See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree, called after him the Navian fig-tree. It was reported that Navius was subsequently put to See also:death by Tarquinius. According to See also:Schwegler, the puteal originally indicated that the place had been struck by See also:lightning, and the See also:story is a See also:reminiscence of the See also:early struggle between the See also:state and ecclesiasticism.
See See also:Livy i. 36; See also:Dion. Halic. iii. 70; Aurelius See also:Victor,' De viris illustribus, 6; Schwegler, Romische Geschichte, bk. xv. 16.
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