They speak the symbolic language of Rome, and thereby approve of their loyalty to the Roman cause, doubly emphasised in the case of Candidinius by the presence of the two Victoriae on a globe, symbols par excellence of Rome’s world dominion.

Of an Octave the Office is said. or at least commemorated, (when any Sunday or Feast intervene), for eight successive days.# A small cask of wine, one eighth of a pipe.

The company used to be notorious for excessive packaging, and social media grew littered with examples: three pairs of socks wrapped in puffy air bladders[…]

[F]oppiſh airs / And hiſtrionic mumm'ry, that let down / The pulpit to the level of the ſtage, / Drops from the lips a diſregarded thing.