Gratian
Americannoun
noun
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She and a male lemur, Gratian, mated and produced five offspring at the zoo.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2021
His nephew, Gratian, succeeded to the throne, but associated with him Theodosius, a young Spaniard of great ability, as Emperor of the East.
From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Bayard Taylor
How during the reign of Honorius, Gratian and Constantine were created tyrants in Britain; and soon after the former was slain in Britain, and the latter in Gaul.Chap.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede
The importance of the question in the twelfth century is shown by the number of canons devoted to it by Gratian.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
Gratian lived back in the fourth century and was a capable sort of an emperor, but he had one weak point.
From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine
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