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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

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)

On the death of Marcian, following that of Pulcheria, in whose person a woman first became empress regnant, Leo was a Thracian officer, a colonel of the service, and director of the general Aspar's household.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)

Across the vast field of view stretched, supported high in air on hundreds of arches, like a Titan procession, the Marcian Aqueduct, erected B.C.

From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by Withrow, William Henry

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