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Marcian

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[mahr-shuhn] / ˈmɑr ʃən /
Also Marcianus

noun

  1. a.d. 392?–457, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 450–457.


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Others are new to the project, including Italian conductor Gianluca Marcian, taking to the pit for the first time in a London opera house.

From Reuters • Oct. 25, 2013

This tribunal," said Presiding Magistrate Marcian Dumont, when evidence was all in, "approves of your fine work and says 'bravo.'

From Time Magazine Archive

The well-known and justly-esteemed Bibliotheca of Fabricius gives an account of all the Latin writers from Plautus to Marcian Capella.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John

He wishes St. Stephen to write a letter to the people of Arles, by which their actual Bishop Marcian, who had joined himself to the schismatic Novatian, might be excommunicated, and another substituted for him.

From The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)

Thus acted Constantine; thus Marcian; thus Cœlestine; thus Leo; thus all the rest, as we have seen in the Acts.

From The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)