Mommsen believed that Claudius had been an augur who was ordered by a chief pontiff Metellus to inaugurate Sulpicius son of Servius as a priest, that Claudius declined on grounds of a religious technicality, that Claudius was subsequently fined by the chief pontiff, and that Claudius appealed the fine.

Second, each percentage point gain for Obama among whites translated into a 1.16 point gain for the down-ticket Democrats (all of whom except for the challengers to Jeff Sessions [R-Ala.] and Thad Cochran [R-Miss.] are white).

the Water cannot so readily subside and fall downwards , it may be the more plentifully emulged into the Bowels, and so that way discharged, as I have sometimes experienced.

Nevertheless, a certain amount of schizophrenia pertains to the study of World Englishes as New Englishes, for while new Englishes are regarded as valid varieties in their own right, the description and delineation of them in linguistic terms is conducted through the gaze of native-speaker norms.