Marcian

[ mahr-shuh n ]

/ ˈmɑr ʃən /

noun

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

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decorum

the act of or need for making up one's mind.

dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.

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Also Mar·ci·a·nus

[mahr-shee-ey-nuh s, mahr-see‐] /ˌmɑr ʃiˈeɪ nəs, ˌmɑr si‐/.

Example sentences from the Web for marcian

And somewhere or other among them Marcian, quite neglected, was sleeping.
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8)|Procopius
He marched by a long circuit to the Marcian heights unnoticed by the enemy, and established his army behind them.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4)|Plutarch
It runs parallel with the Claudian and the Marcian, near Rome, in some places being built out of their remains and on their piers.
Rambles in Rome|S. Russell Forbes
Marcian was bare of all other garments save his sacerdotal apparel.
The Lives of the Saints, Volume 1 (of 16)|Sabine Baring-Gould

Of these, however, there is one which was built in Blachernæ, in the beginning of Marcian I's reign of divine memory.
Primitive Christian Worship|James Endell Tyler

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