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Usage examples of "classicus".
Under Julius Classicus and Julius Tutor, the Gallic auxiliaries went over to Civilis, while they proclaimed their province an empire in its own right.
Their escort was nominal, a handful of fellow Gauls, well fed and smartly outfitted, soldiers themselves before they became followers of Classicus and his colleagues.
Everard knew Classicus grossly underestimated Roman strength and determination.
More than Julius Classicus, who simply displayed his ambitions, Claudius CivilisBurhmundyearned to speak into a sympathetic ear, unburden himself to somebody who laid no claims on him.
While he struggled through the Belgic woods, Classicus sat idle and Tutor was fatally slow to occupy the defenses of the Rhine and the Alps.
Thereupon he entered Augusta Treverorum, Trier to be, city of Classicus and Tutor, birthplace of the Gallic rebellion.
Burhmund and Classicus had regrouped their scattered forces, minus a substantial contingent that Cerialis had trapped.
His boats took off Classicus and Tutor, who were thenceforward no more than disconsolate hangers-on.
No California students today are taught that the Pershing expedition of 1916 against Pancho Villa - the purported locus classicus of Yankee imperialism - actually brought back some Chinese refugees and other exploited people whom American soldiers had saved from certain extermination in Mexico.
In celebrating America, he was building a case against the traditional European condescension or outright hostility toward his adopted country--the kind of attitude whose locus classicus was in the sneer attributed to Georges Clemenceau which I quoted earlier.
Basti pensare ai classici fumetti di Thor che si aprivano con il Dio del Tuono in posa plastica sul tetto di un palazzo: osserva New York immersa nella notte, i lunghi capelli che si agitavano al vento, la posa da statua greca e il martello poggiato sulla coscia.