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Rhenus
Rhenus may refer to: *the Latin name of the Rhine *Rhenus of Carthage (died 259), one of the Martyrs of Carthage under Valerian *Rhenus Pater, allegory or personification of the river *a ship of the Classis Misenensis The ''Classis Misenensis'' ("Fleet of Misenum"), later awarded the honorifics ''praetoria'' and ''Pia Vindex'', was the senior fleet of the imperial Roman navy. History The was founded by Caesar Augustus in 27 BCE, when the fleet of Italy, un ... * Rhenus (company) {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhenus Pater
''Rhenus Pater'' ("Father Rhine", German ''Vater Rhein'') is the personification or river god of the Rhine, attested in epigraphy and associated with Neptunus, called "father of nymphs and rivers" by Martial (10.7). Because of his depiction with horns also called ''Rhenus bicornis'', and as an allegory of the subjugated barbarian tribes called ''Rhenus cornibus fractis'' "Rhenus with broken horns" by Ovid Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō (; 20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the .... There are records of Celtic and Germanic human sacrifice to river gods, and of the Rhine specifically records of a custom of submerging newly-born infants as a test of either their vitality, or as an oracle to determine if they had been conceived in wedlock. The allegory was taken up again as a motive in the German Baroque pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhine
The Rhine ; french: Rhin ; nl, Rijn ; wa, Rén ; li, Rien; rm, label=Sursilvan, Rein, rm, label=Sutsilvan and Surmiran, Ragn, rm, label=Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader and Puter, Rain; it, Reno ; gsw, Rhi(n), including in Alsatian dialect, Alsatian and Low Alemannic German; ksh, label=Ripuarian language, Ripuarian and Low Franconian languages, Low Franconian, Rhing; la, Rhenus ; hu, Rajna . is one of the major List of rivers of Europe, European rivers. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian border, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German border, Swiss-German borders. After that the Rhine defines much of the Franco-German border, after which it flows in a mostly northerly direction through the German Rhineland. Finally in Germany the Rhine turns into a predominantly westerly direction and flows into the Netherlands where it eventually empties into the North Sea. It drains an area of 9,9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhenus Of Carthage
The Martyrs of Carthage under Valerian were a group of Christians including Montanus, Lucius, Flavian, Julian, Victoricus, Primolus, Rhenus, and Donatian who were executed during the persecutions of the Roman Emperor Valerian in 259 AD. Their feast day is 24 February. Source The martyrs wrote a letter, which was the basis for part of the account of their martyrdom, and an eye-witness also left testimony. Alban Butler states that they are published more correctly by Thierry Ruinart than by Laurentius Surius and Jean Bolland. Their account has been reproduced at length by several hagiographers. Monks of Ramsgate account The monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate wrote in their ''Book of Saints'' (1921), Butler's account The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his ''Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints'' under February 24, Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) gives a near-identical version of the above in his ''Lives Of The Saints'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classis Misenensis
The ''Classis Misenensis'' ("Fleet of Misenum"), later awarded the honorifics ''praetoria'' and ''Pia Vindex'', was the senior fleet of the imperial Roman navy. History The was founded by Caesar Augustus in 27 BCE, when the fleet of Italy, until then based mostly at Ostia, was moved to the new harbour of Portus Julius at Misenum in the Bay of Naples.''A Companion to the Roman Army'', p. 209 It was commanded by a , drawn from the highest levels of the equestrian class, those earning more than 200,000 sesterces a year. Its mission was to control the western part of the Mediterranean Sea, and, as the honorific , awarded by Vespasian for its support during the civil war of 69 CE,''Age of the Galley'', p. 80 suggests, the , together with the , formed the naval counterpart of the Praetorian Guard, a permanent naval force at the emperor's direct disposal. The recruited its crews mostly from the East, especially from Egypt. Since Rome did not face any naval threat in the Mediterrane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
