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Usage examples of "tertium".
Mucia Tertia among the women, who had all listened enthralled to this exchange.
Because Junia and Junilla were so much older and therefore used to their names by now, this Junia would be called Tertia, which meant Third and had a nice sound.
Maybe his intriguing with Mucia Tertia had arisen out of disillusionment with Pompey?
If Mucia Tertia and Labienus were in danger, they would have to deal with it themselves.
The only daughter of Scaevola Pontifex Maximus, she had been called Mucia Tertia to distinguish her from her two famous cousins, the daughters of Scaevola the Augur.
But what about Mucia Tertia, of whom no whisper had ever circulated concerning indiscretion, let alone infidelity?
So Mucia Tertia has two Caecilius Metellus half brothers-Nepos Junior and Celer.
Mucia Tertia was very different from his tactics in dealing with Aemilia Scaura-or Antistia, for that matter.
Mucia Tertia must be treated more like an equal, and not at all like a chattel.
Mucia Tertia, is now married to that young upstart from Picenum, Gnaeus Pompeius who has the temerity to call himself Magnus.
Now the father of a son almost two years old and a daughter born earlier in this year, Pompey had left Mucia Tertia at his stronghold in Picenum and issued firm orders that she was not to visit Rome in his absence.
Mucia Tertia, hurrying to see what had happened, took one look and fled again.
So how about one of ours goes to Prima, the other to Tertia, and lies low in orbit?
Nevertheless Tertia shone so brightly as to dazzle surrounding stars out of sight.
Big Tertia must in its youth have had a still denser atmosphere than now, greenhouse effect, heat from a contracting interior, and .