(Encyclopedia) Ennius, QuintusEnnius, Quintuskwĭnˈtəs ĕnˈēəs [key], 239–169? b.c., Latin poet, regarded by the Romans as the father of Latin poetry, b. Calabria. His birthplace was the meeting point…
(Encyclopedia) Masinissa or MassinissaMassinissaboth: măsĭnĭsˈə [key], c.238–148 b.c., king of Numidia. He succeeded (c.207 b.c.) his father as king of E Numidia. Brought up in Carthage, he fought in…
(Encyclopedia) LiberiusLiberiuslībērˈēəs [key], d. 366, pope (352–66), a Roman; successor of St. Julius I. At the beginning of his pontificate, the status of Athanasius was still disputed, and…
(Encyclopedia) Louis II, d. 875, emperor of the West (855–75), king of Italy (844–75), son of Emperor of the West Lothair I. In 844, Lothair I designated him king of Italy and in 850 he was crowned…
(Encyclopedia) ViriatusViriatusvērēäˈtəs [key], d. 139 b.c., leader of the Lusitani (see Lusitania). One of the survivors of the massacre of the Lusitani by the Roman praetor Servius Sulpicius Galba…
(Encyclopedia) Thorvaldsen or Thorwaldsen, Albert BertelThorvaldsen or Thorwaldsen, Albert Bertelboth: älˈbĕrt bĕrˈtəl tôrˈvälsən [key], 1770–1844, Danish sculptor, b. Copenhagen. In 1797 he went to…
(Encyclopedia) Claude LorrainClaude Lorrainklōd lôrăNˈ [key], whose original name was Claude Gelée or GelléeClaude Lorrainzhəlāˈ [key], 1600–1682, French painter, b. Lorraine. Claude was the foremost…
(Encyclopedia) Italic languages, subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages that may be divided into two groups. The first group consists of the ancient Italic languages and dialects that…
(Encyclopedia) Ingres, Jean Auguste DominiqueIngres, Jean Auguste DominiquezhäN ōgüstˈ dômēnēkˈ ăNˈgrə [key], 1780–1867, French painter, b. Montauban; son of a sculptor. He studied with J. L. David…
