"Numidian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The sword and cloth of Pyramus I see: There is the number of the joyless days Wherein Medea won no love nor praise: There is the sand my Ariadne pressed; The footprints of the feet that knew no rest While o'er the sea forth went the fatal sign: The asp of Egypt, the Numidian wine, My Sigurd's sword, my Brynhild's fiery bed, The tale of years of Gudrun's drearihead, And Tristram's glaive, and Iseult's shriek are here, And ...
— Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough • William Morris
... supposed that the Numidian lion and the Bengal tiger were the largest carnivorous animals in existence, but more recent discoveries show that our Alaskan brown bear, found upon the peninsulas of lower Alaska and Kodiak Island, is easily the master of either, in size or strength. Some of the splendid skins taken from ...
— Black Bruin - The Biography of a Bear • Clarence Hawkes
... descendants of the Numidian light cavalry, the Roman and old Spanish horseshoe was evidently too heavy for their sandy, roadless deserts, so they made it thinner and omitted the bent-up rim, because it prevented the quick movement of the horse. For the protection of ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 819 - Volume XXXII, Number 819. Issue Date September 12, 1891 • Various
... bridal of that day and early wedding bliss, If ever I were worthy thanks, if sweet in aught I were, Pity a falling house! If yet be left a space for prayer, O then I pray thee put away this mind of evil things! Because of thee the Libyan folks, and those Numidian kings, 320 Hate me, and Tyrians are my foes: yea, and because of thee My shame is gone, and that which was my heavenward road to be. My early glory.—Guest, to whom leav'st thou thy dying friend? Since of my husband nought but this is left me in the end. Why bide I till Pygmalion comes to lay ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil
... quinqueremes. The withdrawing of these legions from the island did not at all diminish the force employed for the protection of that province, either in effect or appearance; for though, in addition to two veteran legions which were most effectively reinforced, he had a great number of Numidian deserters, both horse and foot, he raised also a body of Sicilian troops, consisting of men who had served in the armies of Epicydes and the Carthaginians, and were experienced in war. Having added these foreign auxiliaries to each of the Roman legions, he preserved the appearance ...
— History of Rome, Vol III • Titus Livius |
