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1. Achaemenid, n. and adj. View full entry 1601
...A member of the dynasty that ruled in ancient Persia from the time of Cyrus the Great (d. 529 b.c.) until the death of Darius III (330 b.c.)....
2. Aeolic, adj. and n. View full entry 1603
...Of or relating to Aeolia or to the Aeolians or their language (see Aeolian1); Aeolian....
3. ancile, n. View full entry 1600
...The sacred shield of the ancient Romans, said to have fallen from heaven; on the preservation of which the prosperity of the city was supposed to depend....
4. biga, n. View full entry 1600
...A two-horsed chariot....
5. bigate, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1600
...Of a coin, esp. a Roman denarius: stamped with the figure of a biga. Also as : a coin of this type....
6. ˈblatta, n. View full entry 1601
...By Roman writers and their translators applied to various insects shunning the light: a kind of moth, mite, or beetle. Vaguely and empirically used by 17th c. writers, but at length specialized...
7. Brittany, n. View full entry 1610
...In pl. The islands constituting the British Isles. Also: the Roman provinces of Britannia Prima (Wales and south-western England) and Britannia Secunda (northern England). Obs....
8. cenˈturiate, adj. View full entry 1600
...a meeting in which all the Roman people voted by centuries (see century2)....
9. cereal, adj. and n. View full entry 1600
...Of or pertaining to corn or edible grain....
10. chœnix, n. View full entry 1603
...A dry measure of ancient Greece, variously estimated at one quart, and 1½ pints imperial measure....
11. congiary, n. View full entry 1601
...A gift divided among the people or the soldiers, orig. something measured in a congius, such as corn or wine. ...
12. curia, n. View full entry 1600
...Hist....
13. curule, adj. View full entry 1600
...a chair or seat inlaid with ivory and shaped like a camp-stool with curved legs, used by the highest magistrates of Rome....
14. decemvir, n. View full entry 1600
...Roman Hist. (pl.) A body of ten men acting as a commission, council, college, or ruling authority; esp. the two bodies of magistrates appointed in 451 and...
15. decemviral, adj. View full entry 1600
...Of or pertaining to the decemvirs....
16. diatonic, adj. View full entry 1603
...The name of that genus or scale of ancient Greek music (the others being chromatic and enharmonic) in which the interval of a tone was used, the tetrachord...
17. dithyramb, n. View full entry 1603
...Ancient Greek Hist. A Greek choric hymn, originally in honour of Dionysus or Bacchus, vehement and wild in character; a Bacchanalian song....
18. Dorian, adj. and n. View full entry 1603
...Of Doris or Doria, a division of ancient Greece. Dorian modeMusic...
19. dupondius, n. View full entry 1601
...A bronze or brass coin of the value of two asses....
20. duumvir, n. View full entry 1600
...In Roman Hist.: One of the duumviri, the general name given to pairs of co-equal magistrates and functionaries in Rome and in her coloniæ and municipia. Hence, in...
