At Ch’ih-pi* on the Yangtse, the van of Ts’ao Ts’ao’s army met Lustrous Jade at the head of a combined force of 40,000 men—and was defeated on contact. Near modern Hankow (Wuhan).

They speak the symbolic language of Rome, and thereby approve of their loyalty to the Roman cause, doubly emphasised in the case of Candidinius by the presence of the two Victoriae on a globe, symbols par excellence of Rome’s world dominion.

There he must lie, in an uncouth posture, for his appointed month; till ,the native bonds being loosed and the doors forced open, he shall be, by a helpful obstetrication, drawn forth into the larger prison of the World

In fact, even within the northern Italian dialects, subject clitics do not constitute a syntactically uniform class, as has been convincingly argued in Poletto's work.