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The Aqueducts and Water Supply of Ancient Jerusalem. [PDF]
Ground WaterAbstract Jerusalem, a city held sacred by three of the world's great religions, is located in a semi‐arid climate, and its occupation through the millennia has only been made possible by the construction of an extensive and ingenious water supply infrastructure. The settlement of Jerusalem was first made possible by water from the Gihon Spring.
Deming D.
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Is a good reputation a dangerous thing? A multimethod assessment of regulator culture and the implications for risk regulation. [PDF]
Risk AnalAbstract Regulator culture has a significant influence on dutyholder safety in high‐risk industries, but there is currently limited research that has explored its nature and implications for effective risk regulation. Building on existing cultural theory and literature on reputational risk, we aim to address this hiatus by exploring regulator culture ...
Clarke S, Siegl L, Holman D.
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Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language - HLT '89, 1989 TACITUS is a general and domain-independent natural language processing system, used so far primarily for message processing. It performs a syntactic analysis of the sentences in the text, producing a logical form. Next, inferential pragmatics processing is applied to the logical form to solve problems of schema recognition, reference resolution ...
Jerry R. Hobbs +4 more
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THE GERUND AND GERUNDIVE IN THE WORKS OF TACITUS AND PLINY THE YOUNGER
Filolog, 2021 The gerund is a defective verbal noun and the gerundive is a passive verbal adjective in -ndus, -a, -um with necessitative meaning. This paper presents some results obtained from a comparison of the various uses gerunds and gerundives in the ...
Slobodanka S. Prtija
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A violação de Britânico (Tac. Ann. 13.17) = Britannicus’ Rape (Tac. Ann. 13.17)
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2020 Este estudo foca-se na biografia de Britânico, filho de Cláudio e Valéria Messalina, analisando em particular as informações transmitidas por Tácito nos Annales.
Nuno Simões Rodrigues
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Pallas, 2023 This paper revisits a debated passage from the opening of Tacitus’ Histories, in which the historian contrasts the pars populi integra and the plebs sordida in Rome (Tac., Hist., 1.4.2-3).
Louis Autin
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TRADURRE L’AGRICOLA DI TACITO IN ETÀ NAPOLEONICA: IL CASO DI G. F. GALEANI NAPIONE
Italiano LinguaDue, 2021 A proposito di origini, contesto e caratteristiche della traduzione dell’Agricola di Tacito ad opera del dotto piemontese G.F. Galeani Napione: pubblicata nel 1806, cioè in anni in cui ancora pareva prossima un’invasione dell’Inghilterra a partire dalla ...
Giovanni Benedetto
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Il mondo del diritto in Tacito [PDF]
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History, 2020 Jens Petersen, Recht bei Tacitus, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2019, XX + 617 p., ISBN 978-3-11-057988 ...
Lorena Atzeri
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"First brought into order": cómo Edmund Bolton leyó a Tácito
Talia dixit, 2020 This review examines the edition of Edmund Bolton’s commentary on the first six books of Tacitus’s Annals by Patricia Osmond and Robert Ulery. The editors’ reading and interpretation of Bolton’s treatise within the historiographic, political and social ...
Victoria Pineda
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Auctor nomini eius Christus. Tacitus’ Knowledge of the Origins of Christianity
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2017 Tacitus’ information about the beginnings of Christianity contains details, which may be historically precise. He learnt them, perhaps, from Christian followers of some other than the received tradition, whom he could have tried during his proconsulship ...
Ivan Prchlík
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