Gratian
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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She and a male lemur, Gratian, mated and produced five offspring at the zoo.
From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2021
Why need you, Maximian, stand in fear of Gratian, when you have so fair an opportunity of wresting the empire from him?
From Old English Chronicles by Various
Less than twenty years after, the Emperor Gratian refused the title of Supreme Pontiff.
From Sermons by Lightfoot, J. B.
Guanius was king of the Huns, and Melga of the Picts, whom Gratian had engaged in his party, and had sent him into Germany to harass those of Maximian's party along the sea-coasts.
From Old English Chronicles by Various
British army, alarmed by the inroads of barbarians, and actuated by a spirit of revolt against Roman authority, set up three local emperors in rapid succession: Marcus, Gratian, and Constantine.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert
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