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Marcellinus

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[mahr-suh-lahy-nuhs] / ˌmɑr səˈlaɪ nəs /

noun

  1. Saint, died a.d. 304, pope 296–304.


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“People expect to see these beautiful floats filled with flowers and tributes to the Virgin,” said Carlos Betancourt, 49, an organizer from St. Marcellinus in Commerce.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2022

If old Marcellinus were around today he might be fretting about the future of the U.S., because we are about to put the President in the loftiest chariot that man has yet devised.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the final days of Rome, the historian Ammianus Marcellinus noted, "The modern nobles measure their rank and consequence according to the loftiness of their chariots."

From Time Magazine Archive

V. 1; and compare Marcellinus on Hermogenes, although this account does not belong to the age of which we treat.1354.Plutarch.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

The philosopher Ammianus Marcellinus, complains that "no beasts were such deadly enemies to men as the more savage Christians were to each other."

From Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures by Mitchell, Logan

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