_Hinc illi homines erant, qui etiam ridiculi inveniebantur ex dolore: quorum alii, ut audistis, negabant mirandum esse_, JUS _tam nequam esse_ VERRINUM: _alii etiam frigidiores erant; sed quia stomachabantur, ridiculi videbantur esse, cum_ SACERDOTEM ❋ Caius Cornelius Tacitus (N/A)
The oligarchs of the culture were known as alii, among whom the preeminent boss on any one island was alii-ai-moku, or “the chief who eats the island,” suggesting a role that was rather more aggrandizing than holy stewardship. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
His disposition is said to be most amiable and genial, and his affability endeared him especially to his own countrymen, by whom he was called alii lokomaikai, “the kind chief.” ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
Malama asked, for her religion took care of this problem by postulating that the acts of the alii were the acts of gods. ❋ Michener, James (1959)
_Troiae_/non alias alii quoque res cecinere poetae? ' ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)
The court of the alii was a vortex that drew in not only the bards and men of lore, but the gay and fashionable rout of pleasure-seekers, the young men and women of shapely form and gracious presence, the sons and daughters of the king's ❋ Nathaniel Bright Emerson (1877)
His disposition is said to be most amiable and genial, and his affability endeared him especially to his own countrymen, by whom he was called alii lokomaikai, "the kind chief." ❋ Unknown (1867)
He married a lesser alii of Lakanaii, and when his three sons were grown, returned with them to Samoa to bring back his own youngest brother. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Our host, Uncle Kimo, explained that lands along the river were once the sacred capital of ancient Kauai and the birthplace of the island's alii, or royalty. ❋ Dawna L. Robertson (2010)
And I was only fifteen, alii kapo over them by blood of heathenness and right of hereditary heathen rule, with a penchant for Jules Verne and shortly to sail for England for my education! ❋ Unknown (2010)
The alii, utterly of the new, must be kindly and kingly to those old ones absolutely of the old. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I have heard Prince Akuli's singing historians (inherited from his father) chanting their interminable genealogies, by which they demonstrated that he was the highest alii in all Hawaii. ❋ Unknown (2010)
She was his living alii, his alii kapo (sacred chiefess). ❋ Unknown (2010)
So, with true alii-authority of command, saying, 'You will immediately follow after me,' I dived in. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He chanted to me, with his old cracked, quavering voice, the line of my descent and my essential high alii - ness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I was the highest alii, beside my father and mother, and they were no higher than I. So I came upon the scene, being summoned into the twilight room to confront those two dubious old ones who dealt with the dead. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He, on the other hand, stipulated that he was not to reveal to her the secret burial-place of all the alii of Lakanaii all the way back. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Not until my return from England did Ahuna die, the last custodian of our alii secrets. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Oh, truly, to be an alii in Hawaii, even in this second decade of the twentieth century, is no light thing. ❋ Unknown (2010)
