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Honorius

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[hoh-nawr-ee-uhs, -nohr-] / hoʊˈnɔr i əs, -ˈnoʊr- /

noun

  1. Flavius a.d. 384–423, Roman emperor of the West 395–423.


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To get their software up and running, the team members scanned letters sent by 13th century Pope Honorius III and taught the computer how to read them with the aid of 600 Italian schoolchildren.

From Los Angeles Times

Honorius prohibited any slave who had been a gladiator passing into the service of a senator; but the real object of this last measure was, I imagine, not so much to stigmatise the gladiator, as to guard against the danger of an armed nobility.58 A much more important fact is that the spectacles were never introduced into the new capital of Constantine.

From Project Gutenberg

In the West, the last gladiatorial show was celebrated at Rome, under Honorius, in a.d.

From Project Gutenberg

When the formulas of persecution became defined under Honorius III.,

From Project Gutenberg

When Honorius III., in 1220, obtained from Frederic II. the ferocious coronation-edict against heresy, he may well have imagined that the way was open for its immediate suppression.

From Project Gutenberg