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    approximate chronological order: 1793 – The Berlin Quadriga was designed by Johann Gottfried Schadow in 1793 as the Quadriga of Victory, perhaps as a symbol of...
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    noteworthy. In the second-century Roman miscellany Attic Nights, Aulus Gellius refers to writers as "classicus... scriptor, non proletarius" ("A distinguished...
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    Zalta (ed.), accessed 3 June 2020. Cicero, Academica, i. 2, 8; Aulus Gellius, ii. 18; Macrobius, Sat. i. 11 Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Menippus" ...
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    Esoterismus appeared in a 1779 work by Johann Georg Hamann, and the use of Esoterik in 1790 by Johann Gottfried Eichhorn. But the word esoterisch had already...
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  • nel latino", La Repubblica, 7 July 2004. Attic Nights, Book 9 by Aulus Gellius (English translation) Ovidi Nasonis Epistvlae Heroidvm, XIII. Laodamia...
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    term from the Latin "humanitas", developed during Roman times (see Aulus Gellius). Latin alphabet, derived from the Greek alphabet; became the foundation...
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  • (1868-1897, United States, H) Thomas Herbert (1606–1682, England, T/Po) Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803, Germany, Ph/Lc) Jenny d'Héricourt (1809–1875, France...
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