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  The Internet Classics Archive | Caius Gracchus by Plutarch
Caius, on the contrary, published an edict, accusing the consul for what he had done, and setting forth to the Confederates, that if they would continue upon the place, they might be assured of his assistance and protection.
Caius could not be persuaded to arm himself, but put on his gown, as if he had been going to the assembly of the people, only with this difference, that under it he had then a short dagger by his side.
Caius, as it is reported, was very forward to go and clear himself before the senate; but none of his friends consenting to it, Fulvius sent his son a second time to intercede for them, as before.
classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/gracchus.html   (4191 words)

  
 About Gonville & Caius College
Caius is an excellent place to study: stimulating small group supervisions, the challenge of College sport, and living in the beautiful Old Courts are all experiences that will not be readily forgotten.
Gonville and Caius is an attractive College in the centre of Cambridge that is famous for its three Gates: Gate of Humility, Gate of Virtue and Gate of Honour.
Caius admits students solely on the basis of academic potential and welcomes applications from students from all backgrounds, schools and colleges, from the United Kingdom and overseas.
www.cam.ac.uk /admissions/undergraduate/colleges/caius   (381 words)

  
 John Caius
John Caius [Anglice Kees, Keys, etc.] (November 6, 1510 - July 29, 1573), English physician, and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, was born at Norwich on the 6th of October 1510.
Dr Caius was a learned, active and benevolent man. In 1557 he erected a monument in St Paul's to the memory of Linacre.
In 1564 he obtained a grant for Gonville and Caius College to take the bodies of two malefactors annually for dissection; he was thus an important pioneer in advancing the science of anatomy.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Caius.html   (506 words)

  
 ST. CAIUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Caius was a Dalmatian, the son of Caius.
Caius died in 296 and was buried in the Cemetery of Calixtus.
The feast of St. Caius together with that of Pope St. Soter is celebrated on April 22.
www.cfpeople.org /Books/Pope/POPEp28.htm   (283 words)

  
 John Caius Summary
Caius (the Latin form of his name that he adopted, which has at least 10 alternative spellings) is best known for his 1552 book A Boke or Counseill against the Disease commonly called the Sweate, or Sweatyng Sicknesse, considered one of the first original descriptions of an epidemic.
Caius was a notable man of letters, translating and lecturing and publishing on subjects ranging from British dogs to philosophy, to the origins of universities.
Caius is considered a founder of Cambridge's Gonville and Caius College, even though the institution that was then named Gonville Hall was already more than 180 years old at the time of his study.
www.bookrags.com /John_Caius   (1206 words)

  
 The Galileo Project
Caius began to lecture on anatomy in London in 1546 on the express command of Henry VIII.
The appointment with Elizabeth was terminated in 1568 because of Caius' Catholicism.
Caius was called to attend the aristocracy and gentry in the neighborhood of London--e.g., the Countess of Oxford and a son of Sir John Baker of Kent in 1557.
galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/caius.html   (666 words)

  
 Caius
Cod., 48) gives some additional data drawn from a marginal note in a manuscript copy of the work on the "Nature of the Universe" in which Caius is said to have been a presbyter of the Roman Church and to have been elected "Bishop of the Gentiles".
We owe to Caius a very valuable evidence of the death of Sts.
The fragments of Caius are printed in ROUTH, Reliquiae Sacrae (Oxford, 1846), II, 125-58, and in P.G., X, 25-36.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/c/caius.html   (369 words)

  
 The Internet Classics Archive | Caius Marius by Plutarch
We are altogether ignorant of any third name of Caius Marius; as also of Quintus Sertorius, that possessed himself of Spain or of Lucius Mummius that destroyed Corinth, though this last was surnamed Achaicus from his conquests, as Scipio was called Africanus, and Metellus, Macedonicus.
Caius Herennius was also cited to appear as evidence, but pleaded that it was not customary for a patron (the Roman word for protector) to witness against his clients, and that the law excused them from that harsh duty; and both Marius and his parents had always been clients to the family of Herennii.
One Caius Lusius, his own nephew, had a command under him in the army, a man not in other respects of bad character, but shamefully licentious with young men.
classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/c_marius.html   (6198 words)

  
 Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership
Caius was born in 1510 in Norwich, and after studying at Gonville Hall in Cambridge for a time went to Italy to finish his studies in medicine.
Caius helped to establish Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge and was the college’s master until his death in 1573.
Though Caius guessed that the disease was at least partially caused by filth, to this day the disease and cause of it have remain undetermined.
www.lib.umich.edu /tcp/eebo/Featured/caius.html   (260 words)

  
 John Caius
Caius also presented us with one of our earliest surviving relics, a silver caduceus which is used as the Master's symbol of office.
Caius was also a meticulous man. He initiated a detailed set of matriculation records, which recorded not just the name and age of each new student, but also their parents' names, their father's occupation and the location of their home.
Caius finally became Master of the College in 1559 and remained in this office till shortly before his death in 1573.
www.cai.cam.ac.uk /college/past/ingram/historyjcaius.php   (520 words)

  
 Pope Caius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pope Caius (or Gaius) was pope from 283 until his death in 296.
He was the son of Gaius, or, according to St. Susanna of Concordius, a relative of the emperor Diocletian, and became pope on December 17, 283.
Saint Caius is portrayed in art wearing the Papal Tiara with Saint Nereus.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Caius   (158 words)

  
 The Baldwin Project: Our Young Folks' Plutarch by Rosalie Kaufman
Be that as it may, Caius lived in retirement, and devoted much of his time to the study of public speaking, so that when he undertook to defend one of his friends against a certain charge, he did it so well that people pronounced him the very best orator in Rome.
One of the laws Caius proposed was that three hundred Roman knights should be added to the senate, making six hundred in all; and as soon as it was passed he was appointed to choose the knights.
Caius and Tiberius Gracchus met with the same fate, yet there was less excuse for the conduct of the former than of the latter, for he was more of a popular leader and less of a patriot than Tiberius.
www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=kaufman&book=plutarch&story=gracchus   (2609 words)

  
 John Caius
English physician, and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, born at Norwich on the 6th of October 1510.
Caius was physician to King Edward VI, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth I.
Caius was a learned, active and benevolent man. In 1557 he erected a monument in St. Paul's to the memory of Linacre.
www.nndb.com /people/759/000082513   (477 words)

  
 Engineering at Caius
Caius has five Teaching Fellows in Engineering, of whom one is a University Reader in Engineering, and the remainder are University Lecturers in Engineering; all take an active role in teaching both in the Department and in College.
Caius' provision of one public computer for every 20 students is one of the most generous in the University.
Caius has a splendid and elegant library which is also well equipped with course books and is an excellent place to work and research.
www2.eng.cam.ac.uk /~dmh/gcceng.htm   (2095 words)

  
 Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Caius claims to be one of the colleges with consistently high undergraduate academic achievement [2].
Caius did however found the college as a strong centre for the study of medicine, a tradition that it aims to keep to this day.
Caius also very selectively admits academically accomplished American and other foreign students for its various summer programmes, the most prominent of which has been organized in the United States by the University of New Hampshire, although these programmes are not to the Tripos standard.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gonville_and_Caius_College,_Cambridge   (1544 words)

  
 Caius House Battersea - photos
Caius House houses an assortment of clubs and activities, including being the meeting place of the celestial church of christ.
Left is the gate to Caius House from the neighbouring park, below is part of the Yelverton Road estate and the view south from Caius House towards the towers of the enormous Winstanley estate.
These are the buttresses that face Holman road (left), and the windows at the east side of the building, which face a small public area with benches, with a gate leading to a small and little-known park tucked away in the centre of the block.
www.geocities.com /david_charles_curran/caiushouse   (654 words)

  
 Characters - Caius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A former associate of Vala Mal Doran, Caius is smuggler who hid out in a monastery dedicated to the Goa'uld Grannus, posing as a faithful monk.
The object was the only thing that kept the monastery alive with the revenue that it helped to generate, Caius told her, and if he was going to return it to her he fully intended to leave.
Caius presumably then left the monastery and returned to the life of an expert smuggler.
www.gateworld.net /omnipedia/characters/c/caius.shtml   (196 words)

  
 CAIUS SEMPRONIUS GRACCHUS ::: GENS SEMPRONIA
Caius Sempronius Gracchus (153—121 B.C.E), younger brother of Tiberius, was a man of greater abilities, bolder and more passionate, although possessed of considerable powers of self-control, and a vigorous and impressive orator.
Caius was reelected tribune in 122 BCE, but the counter-proposals of Marcus Livius Drusus began to gain popularity, and the following year Caius was defeated for reelection.
Repeal of his measures was proposed, and in the ensuing riots Caius was killed.
www.villaivlilla.com /GensSempronia/cai-gracchus.htm   (317 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Caius and Soter
They have their feast together on 22 April, on which day they appear in most of the martyrologies, though Notker and a few others give Soter on the 21st and Caius on the 19th or 21st.
The traditional generosity of the Roman Church is again referred to by St. Dionysius of Alexandria to Pope Dionysius in the middle of the third century, and Eusebius says it still continued in his time.
Caius was pope for twelve years, four months, and seven days, from 17 December, 283, to 22 April, 296, according to the Liberian catalogue (Harnack, Chronol., I, 155, after Lipsius and Lightfoot); Eusebius is wrong in giving him fifteen years.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03144c.htm   (337 words)

  
 Gonville and Caius Cambridge MS 174 / 95
Due to the broad range of this codex, whether we are referring to the nature and language of the contents or the three to four century span of its composition and compilation, the complexities of provenance are compounded.
When classifying a codex such as Gonville and Caius 174/95, it is important to distinguish features of its immediate context from those of the codex-anthology.
This volume was presented to Gonville and Caius College in 1659, the year of his death.
www.fiu.edu /~bakerj/RS/GonCaius.htm   (1659 words)

  
 The UESP: Morrowind - Main Quest: Ashlander Informant
Caius gives you 100 gold for you to try and find out what this Ashlander likes and buy him a present in hopes of persuading him to talk about Ashlanders and this Nerevarine Cult.
Once you return to Caius, he again promotes you but says for you to keep the notes as he is sending you to the Urshilaku Ashlander camp that Hassour mentions.
Caius gives you a decoded copy of the original package you delivered to him along with 200 gold and instructions to see Somutis Vunnis and Crulius Pontanian at Fort Moonmoth before heading up to see the heads of the Nerevarine Cult at Urshilaku.
www.uesp.net /morrow/quest/mq_caius4.shtml   (659 words)

  
 Caius
But I found that this treatise is not the work of Josephus, but of one Gains a presbyter, who lived in Rome, who they say composed The Labyrinth also, and whose dialogue with Proclus, the champion of the Montanistic heresy, is in circulation.
The reference is to the Vatican as the traditional burial place of Peter, and to the Ostian Road as that of Paul.
From internal evidence the writer of the fragment is believed to belong to the latter half of the second century.
mb-soft.com /believe/txu/caius.htm   (2979 words)

  
 Pope Caius - ApostolicWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Pope Saint Caius, born in Dalmatia, was a relative of the emperor Diocletian.
The cruel emperor did not for that reason spare him or his family during the bloody persecution of the years 283 to 296, during which the Christians of Rome were obliged to conceal themselves in caverns and cemeteries.
Saint Caius himself received the crown of martyrdom in the final year of the persecution, 296, and was buried in the cemetery of Callixtus, where his body was found in 1622, with an inscription identifying him as Vicar of Christ.
www.taac.us /index.php?title=Pope_Caius   (179 words)

  
 Gonville and Caius College - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Gonville and Caius College, college of the University of Cambridge, England.
Often known simply as Caius, Gonville and Caius College was first...
Harvey was born on April 1, 1578, at Folkestone, Kent, and was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Gonville_and_Caius_College.html   (114 words)

  
 St. Xavier's College, Mumbai-India : Research Institutes : Caius Research Laboratory
Streptomyces caiuseae, a microorganism secreting the antibiotic streptomycin that is catalogued in the Bergey's Manual, is one of the early discoveries from this laboratory.
In 1978, the Caius Research Laboratory was redesignated as the Caius Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Research and has since been conducting research on various projects involving microbiology, biochemistry, organic chemistry, botany and geology.
Faculty and ex-students who are now professionals having several years of experience are offering their expertise in the fields of biotechnology, toxicology, medicinal chemistry, industrial fermentation, chemical and biological process development, waste treatment, pollution control and analysis.
www.xaviers.edu /caiuslab.htm   (317 words)

  
 Morrowind:Report to Caius Cosades - UESPWiki
Before you leave, you are given orders to take a package to Caius Cosades in the town of Balmora, where you will be given further instructions.
After speaking with some of the people here about Caius, they will refer you to Bacola Closcius, who is upstairs.
After giving Caius the package and promising that you will follow his orders, he will name you a Novice of the Blades, the emperor's eyes and ears of the provinces.
www.uesp.net /wiki/Morrowind:Report_to_Caius_Cosades   (503 words)

  
 Julius Caesar: A New Perspective
Caius is trying to solidify the assumptions he has come to on a practical basis, also on a theoretical basis.
Caius resolves to make an effort to combat the evil that he perceives has caused the problems in Rome.
Again the means are not specified, except that when he “assumes power”, which would be to become Consul in the normal course of events, but I think he knows more than even this is needed.
caius-ebook.com   (5487 words)

  
 The Caius Club
The Caius Club was founded in the early 1900s to sponsor activities for friends of the college, and to include any Caian who wishes to maintain links with the college and its past and present members.
We alternate the format of the annual dinner to suit those who want to introduce their partners to the Caius experience, and also those who wish to engage conversation with those who have already had it.
This was, as ever, held in Caius meadow, on the better side of the river, now in its ninth year and becoming ever more popular.
caialumni.admn.cai.cam.ac.uk /alumni/caiusclub.php   (663 words)

  
 Caius Films   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Caius Films is the film society of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University.
Caius Films brings you film showings on Tuesdays and Fridays this Michaelmas term, with a mix of classics and modern films alike to help you relax after a hard day's work.
We are looking for new members to take on the society as the current encumbants become old and somewhat crusty.
www.caiusfilms.co.uk   (233 words)

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