Marcian
[mahr-shuh n]
- a.d. 392?–457, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 450–457.
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Also Mar·ci·a·nus [mahr-shee-ey-nuh s, mahr-see‐] /ˌmɑr ʃiˈeɪ nəs, ˌmɑr si‐/.
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According to Marcian the distance between these points was 4250 stadia.
Marcian fell at his feet, and denied that he had worn any such raiment.
The Lives of the Saints, Volume 1 (of 16)Sabine Baring-Gould
At the same time he spared no pains in adding to the Marcian collection.
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7)John Addington Symonds
Then I thought of the descriptions of heaven in Boethius and Marcian.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7)Geoffrey Chaucer
And somewhere or other among them Marcian, quite neglected, was sleeping.