In the course of the campaign Caesar's captors became his captives and recognizing the man who had spared his life, Caesar made him one of his personal attendants and permitted him to bear arms — a privilege not allowed to any but Roman soldiers — and thus the name Taliaferro originated from the Latin "telum" — a dart — and "ferro" — to bear. ❋ Unknown (1924)
The little javelin doration in the Greek text, so iaculum or telum in Latin is just the sort of weapon to have been thrown by Romes light infantry. ❋ Barry Strauss (2009)
'Tis [3721] fortunae telum, non culpae, fortune's fault, not mine. ❋ Unknown (2007)
“Dextra mihi Deus, et telum quod missile libro, Nunc adsint!” ❋ Unknown (2003)
The _telum_ of 12 should be taken to be a spear, since _mittere_ never seems to be used of arrows. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)
_ 53, 'Peroraturus "stricturum se lucubrationis suae telum" minabatur; lenius comtiusque scribendi genus adeo contemnens, ut Senecam, tum maxime placentem, "commissiones meras" componere, et ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)
Others say the name is an alteration of Telia, from _telum_, a dart, alluding to the use of the wood. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)
Ossium annulos fregit; telum per omnem penetravit moribundam carnem. ❋ Chauncey Brewster Tinker (1919)
Pius V. had not merely excommunicated her, which was a barren and ineffective threat, a telum imbelle sine ictu; he had also purported to depose her as a heretic, and to release her subjects from the duty of allegiance. ❋ Paul, Herbert (1905)
Helicidæ is the so-called _dart, Liebespfeil_, or _telum ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)
As a mortification to such impotent malice, of which there are so many instances towards men of eminence, I am happy to relate, that this telum imbelle [1] did not reach its exalted object, till about a year after it thus appeared, when I mentioned it to him, supposing that he knew of the re-publication. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)
We need not trouble ourselves with them, except so far as to note that one, at least, was pure invention; at Falerii, where there was an oracle by lots, [668] one tablet fell out of the bundle with the words written on it, _Mavors telum suum concutit_. ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)
_Falarica erat Saguntinis, missile telum hastili abiegno -- id, sicut in pilo, quadratum stuppa circumligabant, linebantque pice: -- quod cum medium accensum mitteretur_, etc. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (1844)
No; I gave no cause to take so much as Fimbria's complaint against me, for I did _totum telum corpore recipere_. ❋ Lucy Aikin (1822)
As a mortification to such impotent malice, of which there are so many instances towards men of eminence, I am happy to relate, that this _telum imbelle_ [404] did not reach its exalted object, till about a year after it thus appeared, when I mentioned it to him, supposing that he knew of the re-publication. ❋ James Boswell (1767)
No. I gave no cause, not so much as Fimbria's complaint against me; for I did 'totum telum corpore recipere,' receive the whole sword into my body. ❋ David Hume (1743)
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