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Herodian   Listen
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Herodian  n.  (Jewish Hist.) One of a party among the Jews, composed of partisans of Herod of Galilee. They joined with the Pharisees against Christ.






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"Herodian" Quotes from Famous Books



... the tumuli along the coast, or in those of the Romano-British period, that iron implements are ever found; whilst in the ancient burying places of the interior of the country they are altogether wanting. Herodian says of the British pursued by Severus through the fens and marshes of the east coast, that they wore iron hoops round their middles and their necks, esteeming them as ornaments and tokens of riches, in ...
— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles

... Poetsch. (Program. Bei.—traege zur Kritik der Kaiserbiographien Cassius Dio, Herodian, und AElius Lampridius auf Grund ihrer Berichte ueber den Kaiser Commodus Antoninus.—Z. ...
— Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) • Cassius Dio



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