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• He relied heavily on Orosius "'Historiarum Adversum Paganos " ( 5th century AD ) and Eusebius of Caesarea's " Chronicon " ( early 5th century AD ) as did Orosius.
• The conflicting claims of Philip and Constantine to primacy may have been at issue at the turn of the 5th century, when the " Origo Constantini " and " Historia adversum paganos " were written.
• Other important Old English translations include : " Historiae adversum paganos " by The City of God "; the " Dialogues " of Gregory the Great; and Bede's " Ecclesiastical History of the English People ".
• In Spring 291 they formed a special alliance with the Gothic Thervingi, forming a tribal confederation from this date until 376, and fought the Vandals and Gepids : " Tervingi, pars alia Gothorum, adiuncta manu Taifalorum, adversum Vandalos Gipedesque concurrunt ".
• In 1494, on the death of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Manardo oversaw the publication of his " Disputationes adversum Astrologiam divinatricem ", in which the philosopher criticized astrological beliefs and practices, marking a clear distinction between astronomy ( mathematical or speculative astrology ), which studied the harmonic reality of the universe, and astrology ( judicial or divining astrology ), which supposedly revealed the future of men according to astral conjunctures.
• *" " The ancient traditions regarding Philip's Christianity can be divided into three categories : the Eusebian, or Caesarean, in Eusebius of Caesarea's Historia Ecclesiastica; the Antiochene, in John Chrysostom's homily de S . Babyla and in Leontius, bishop of Antioch's record in the Chronicon Paschale; and the Latin, in Jerome's Liber de viris inlustribus and Chronicon, Orosius'Historiarum Adversum Paganos, and Vincent of L閞ins'Commonitorum Primum . ""
• The motto chosen was " Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum " taken from the fable of the Fox and the Lion as told by the poet Horace : " " Quia me vestigia terrent, / Omnia te adversum spectantia / Nulla retrorsum " ", says the Fox to the Lion who invited him into his den . " I am afraid of those footsteps; every track leads to your home but never a one leads back . " The words stand for the principles of integrity, truth, the fear of God and true religion, which the Founders of St George's and their successors have endeavoured to uphold and inculcate.
• Accounts of artifacts being sacrificed to the gods appear on various textual sources authored by Roman writers from this period; one of these appears in the " Annals " of Tacitus, which claims that after a battle in which the Hermunduri tribe defeated the Chatti in a battle of 58 CE, the victors devoted " the enemy's army to Mars and Mercury, a vow which consigns horses, men, everything indeed on the vanquished side to destruction . " An earlier source, the " Historiae Adversum Paganos " of Orosius, states that following the Battle of Arausio in 105 BCE, the victorious Cimbi tribe " destroyed all that had fallen into their hands in an unheard-of and hitherto unknown maledictory ritual; clothing was torn apart and thrown away, gold and silver were thrown in the river, the men's armour was cut to pieces, the breastplates of the horses were sunk in the waters, the people were hanged from trees with a rope around their necks ".