What is "sylvius"

Usage examples of "sylvius".

Count Sylvius was seated as he had been and I envied his calm, self-satisfied air.

I hoped that a letter from Sylvius, a physician as famous in medicine as was Boyle in chemistry, would ensure me a welcome.

I greatly admire Sylvius for his knowledge, but not for his judgment of his fellows.

Count Sylvius, but perhaps you would kindly give me my prefix when you address me.

Count Sylvius cast a somewhat unflattering glance at his associate and disregarded the unwashed hand which was extended towards him.

Italian prelates, such as Aeneas Sylvius, with the king of the Renaissance, Erasmus himself.

The alliance between renovated Hellenism and the Papacy was ratified a few years later, when the most intelligent of the Italian Humanists, Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini of Siena, was raised to the throne under the name of Pius II, and became the most modern of medieval Popes.

His successor, Aeneas Sylvius, considered that the decline of the empire was due to the fact that scholarship had gone over to the Papacy.

Aeneas Sylvius laughed at the Donation of Constantine, and wrote an account of his own Conclave in the tone of a fin de siecle journalist.

So that was what Sylvius had told the college to explain his sudden absence.

Whatever the matter was, it must be of the utmost importance for Sylvius to have come in person.

After him Sylvius, the son of Ascanius, born by some accident in a wood, ascends the throne.

Before his elevation to the see of Peter this talented writer, known to literature as Aeneas Sylvius, had, at the Council of Basle, published a strong argument against the extreme papal claims, which he afterwards, as pope, retracted.

In the deadlock Piccolomini was elected, taking the name Pius III in honor of his uncle, the former Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, who had been Pius II.

It is the most prominent of all the sulci, and is sometimes called the fissure of Sylvius, after the professional pseudonym of a i/th-century French anatomist who first described it.