"as Oxford and the leading ""public schools"" (English private academies), where the liturgy was still permitted to be conducted in Latin and there have been several Latin translations since. Most recently, a Latin edition of the 1979 USA Anglican Book of Common Prayer has appeared. Switzerland has adopted the country's Latin short name on coins and stamps, since there is no room to use all of the nation's four official languages. For a similar reason, it adopted the international vehicle and internet code ""CH"", which stands for , the country's full Latin name. Canada's motto (""from sea to sea"") and"
"Exoniensis Exoniensis (usually abbreviated Exon.) is the Latin adjectival form of ""Exonia"", the Latin name for the city of Exeter in Devon, England. It therefore means ""of Exeter"". The Latin noun ""Exonia"" has as its genitive form ""Exoniae"", meaning ""of Exeter"", which may also be expressed by the adjective ""Exoniensis"", also meaning ""of Exeter"", which declines like ""tristis, triste"", ""sad"". The usage may be compared with the common usage in Classical Latin literature of ""Carthago"", genitive ""Carthaginis"", the city of Carthage, with its adjectival form ""Carthaginiensis"". It is thus used in the modern age in formal ecclesiastical and academic Latin"
"term. Exoniensis Exoniensis (usually abbreviated Exon.) is the Latin adjectival form of ""Exonia"", the Latin name for the city of Exeter in Devon, England. It therefore means ""of Exeter"". The Latin noun ""Exonia"" has as its genitive form ""Exoniae"", meaning ""of Exeter"", which may also be expressed by the adjective ""Exoniensis"", also meaning ""of Exeter"", which declines like ""tristis, triste"", ""sad"". The usage may be compared with the common usage in Classical Latin literature of ""Carthago"", genitive ""Carthaginis"", the city of Carthage, with its adjectival form ""Carthaginiensis"". It is thus used in the modern age in formal ecclesiastical and academic"
"other discoveries at the city's Royal Albert Memorial Museum. Isca Dumnoniorum Isca Dumnoniorum, also known simply as Isca, was a town in the Roman province of Britannia at the site of present-day Exeter in the English county of Devon in the United Kingdom. It served as the tribal capital of the Dumnonians under and after the Romans. The city walls of Exeter (some 70% of which survive) mark the former perimeter of Isca and excavations in the 1970s and 1980s verified that the town was home to a Roman fortress almost certainly for the Second Augustan Legion. The town seems"
"the British population, suggesting an ancient connection of peoples along the western Atlantic seaboard. The Latin name for Exeter is Isca Dumnoniorum (""Water of the Dumnonii""). This oppidum (a Latin term meaning an important town) on the banks of I River Exe certainly existed prior to the foundation of the Roman city in about AD 50. ""Isca"" is derived from the Brythonic word for flowing water, which was given to the River Exe. This is reflected in the Welsh name for Exeter: ""Caerwysg"" meaning ""fortified settlement on the river Uisc"". Isca Dumnoniorum originated with a settlement that developed around the"
"Dumnonia Dumnonia is the Latinised name for the Brythonic kingdom in Sub-Roman Britain between the late 4th and late 8th centuries, in what is now the more westerly parts of South West England. It was centred in the area later called Devon, but included modern Cornwall and part of Somerset, with its eastern boundary changing over time as the gradual westward expansion of the neighbouring Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex encroached on its territory. The spelling Damnonia is sometimes encountered, but is also used for the land of the Damnonii, later part of the Kingdom of Strathclyde, in what is today"
"Oxfordshire Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from ""Oxonium"", the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England. The ceremonial county borders Warwickshire to the north-west, Northamptonshire to the north-east, Buckinghamshire to the east, Berkshire to the south, Wiltshire to the south-west and Gloucestershire to the west. The county has major education and tourist industries and is noted for the concentration of performance motorsport companies and facilities. Oxford University Press is the largest firm among a concentration of print and publishing firms; the University of Oxford is also linked to the concentration of local biotechnology companies. As well as the"
"Isca Dumnoniorum Isca Dumnoniorum, also known simply as Isca, was a town in the Roman province of Britannia at the site of present-day Exeter in the English county of Devon in the United Kingdom. It served as the tribal capital of the Dumnonians under and after the Romans. The city walls of Exeter (some 70% of which survive) mark the former perimeter of Isca and excavations in the 1970s and 1980s verified that the town was home to a Roman fortress almost certainly for the Second Augustan Legion. The town seems to have grown up around this fort (established )"
"the Roman road network in the South West of Britannia. After the departure of the Roman administration from Britain, around 410 AD, a Brythonic kingdom emerged in the West Country based on the old Roman civitas surrounding Exeter. It was called, in Latin, Dumnonia and, in the native Brythonic language, Dyfneint: pronounced ""Dove-naynt"" and eventually corrupted to ""Devon"", the region in which the modern town of Torquay is situated would have been a part of this Sub-Roman kingdom. Dumnonia was gradually taken over by the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, but the region of Torquay or Torbay received no mention during"
"as a ""huge ruin"". Othona Othona or Othonae was the name of an ancient Roman fort of the Saxon Shore at the location of the modern village Bradwell-on-Sea in Essex, England. The Old English name ""Ythanceaster"" for the locality derives from the Roman name. The fort of Othona is in a typical late 3rd century style, and was possibly constructed in during or shortly prior to the Carausian Revolt, making it contemporary with the forts at Dubris, Portus Lemanis and Gariannonum According to the ""Notitia Dignitatum"", which is the only contemporary document mentioning Othona, the fort was garrisoned by a"
"Othona Othona or Othonae was the name of an ancient Roman fort of the Saxon Shore at the location of the modern village Bradwell-on-Sea in Essex, England. The Old English name ""Ythanceaster"" for the locality derives from the Roman name. The fort of Othona is in a typical late 3rd century style, and was possibly constructed in during or shortly prior to the Carausian Revolt, making it contemporary with the forts at Dubris, Portus Lemanis and Gariannonum According to the ""Notitia Dignitatum"", which is the only contemporary document mentioning Othona, the fort was garrisoned by a ""numerus fortensium"" (""""numerus"" of"
"the Dumnonii""), contains the root ""*iska-"" ""water"" for ""Water of the Dumnonii"". The Latin name suggests that the city was already an ""oppidum"", or walled town, on the banks on the River Exe before the foundation of the Roman city, in about AD 50. The Dumnonii gave their name to the English county of Devon, and their name is represented in Britain's two extant Brythonic languages as ""Dewnans"" in Cornish and ""Dyfnaint"" in Welsh. Amédée Thierry (""Histoire des Gaulois"", 1828), one of the inventors of the ""historic race"" of Gauls, could confidently equate them with the Cornish (""les Cornouailles""). Victorian"
"Oechalia (Messenia) Oechalia or Oichalia () was a town in ancient Messenia, in the plain of Stenyclerus. It was in ruins in the time of Epaminondas, and its position was a matter of dispute in later times. Strabo identified it with Andania, the ancient residence of the Messenian kings, and Pausanias with Carnasium, which was only 8 stadia distant from Andania, and upon the river Charadrus. Carnasium, in the time of Pausanias, was the name given to a grove of cypresses, in which were statues of Apollo Carneius, of Hermes Criophorus, and of Persephone. It was here that the mystic"
"Oxford Oxford ( ) is a city in south central England and the county town of Oxfordshire. With an estimated 2016 population of 170,350, it is the 52nd largest city in the United Kingdom, and one of the fastest growing and most ethnically diverse. The city is from London, from Bristol, from Southampton, from Birmingham and from Reading. The city is known worldwide as the home of the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Buildings in Oxford demonstrate notable examples of every English architectural period since the late Saxon period. Oxford is known as the ""city"
"in the area to keep the Brigantian peace. At this time the ""Legio II Augusta"" held the command in the south east, the ""Legio IX Hispana"" was campaigning the north east beyond the Trent, the ""Legio XX Valeria Victrix"" held Colchester and the ""Legio XIV"" was based at Wroxeter. Ostorius initiated further Romanisation during his command in the safer southern lands, founding Britain's first colony of military veterans at Camulodunum (modern Colchester) in 49 and probably establishing a ""municipium"" at Verulamium (St Albans). His tactical skill rather than his political acumen was his strength however. He had received a difficult"
"possibilities. The site of Oechalia is at or near that of ancient Carnasium (Karnasion). Oechalia (Messenia) Oechalia or Oichalia () was a town in ancient Messenia, in the plain of Stenyclerus. It was in ruins in the time of Epaminondas, and its position was a matter of dispute in later times. Strabo identified it with Andania, the ancient residence of the Messenian kings, and Pausanias with Carnasium, which was only 8 stadia distant from Andania, and upon the river Charadrus. Carnasium, in the time of Pausanias, was the name given to a grove of cypresses, in which were statues of"
"as Roman colonies, such as Cologne, Germany, originally called ""Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium"" by the Romans, and the British capital city of London, which the Romans founded as ""Londinium"". The decline and collapse of the Roman Empire saw (and was partly caused by) the large-scale movement of people in Eastern Europe and Asia. This is largely seen as beginning with nomadic horsemen from Asia (specifically the Huns) moving into the richer pasture land to the west, thus forcing the local peoples there to move further west and so on until eventually the Goths were forced to cross into the Roman"
"Apollonia (Sicily) Apollonia (Greek: ) was an ancient city of Sicily, which, according to Stephanus of Byzantium, was situated in the neighborhood of Aluntium and Calacte. Cicero also mentions it (""Or. in Verr."" 2.3.103) and in conjunction with Haluntium, Capitium, and Enguium, in a manner that seems to imply that it was situated in the same part of Sicily with these cities; and we learn from Diodorus (xvi. 72) that it was at one time subject to Leptines, the tyrant of Enguium, from whose hands it was wrested by Timoleon, and restored to an independent condition. A little later we"
"to the town walls. However, a serious fire spread through the town centre and the forum, basilica and market hall were never rebuilt. The settlement is generally identified as the mentioned among the 28 cities of Britain by the later ""History of the Britons"" traditionally attributed to Nennius. Ratae Corieltauvorum Ratae Corieltauvorum or simply Ratae was a town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is known as Leicester, located in the English county of Leicestershire. ""Ratae"" is a latinate form of the Brittonic word for ""ramparts"" (cf. Gaelic ""rath""), suggesting the site was an Iron Age oppidum. This"
"Oeantheia Oeantheia () or Oeanthe (Οἰάνθη) or Euanthis (Εὐανθίς) or Euanthia (Εὐανθία) was an important town of the Ozolian Locrians, situated at the western entrance of the Crissaean Gulf. Polybius says that it is opposite to Aegeira in Achaea. Thucydides relates that during the Peloponnesian War, the Oeanthians are among several towns of the Locri Ozolae that were forced to provide hostages to the Lacedaemonian army in 426 BCE. The ""Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax"" calls the town Euanthis; and since Strabo says that Locri Epizephyrii in Italy was founded by the Ozolian Locrians, under a leader named Euanthes, it has been"
"Oxyneia Oxyneia or Oxynia (), or Oxynium or Oxynion (Ὀξύνιον), was a town and polis (city-state) of ancient Thessaly, situated on the Ion, a tributary of the Peneius, and perhaps the capital of the Talares. It is described by Strabo as distant 120 stadia from Azorus. It is cited as a place that provided a ""theorodokos"" to Epidaurus in 359 BCE. Its site in unknown. It has traditionally been located in old Meritsa, which is currently called Oxyneia but that location does not seem to be compatible with Strabo's description, like another suggested location Nea Smolia. Another place where it"
"although others such as Mommsen and Ussher instead read ""vel"" as the Latin for ""or""—""Pensa or Coyt""—and tentatively associate it with Isca at present-day Exeter. Lindinis Lindinis or Lendiniae was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is known as Ilchester, located in the English county of Somerset in the United Kingdom. The name ""Lindinis"" appears in the 7th-century ""Ravenna Cosmography"". The alternative ""*Lendiniae"" is derived from two inscribed construction stones from Hadrian's Wall which refer to a detachment from the ""Lendinienses"" tribe of the Durotriges"" (). The inscriptions seem to imply that the town was"
"Oechalia referred to this city, or that of Thessaly, or another also located in Trachis, also in Thessaly, or even to others that were located in Arcadia or Messenia. The author of the epic poem ""Capture of Oechalia"" (usually attributed to Creophylus of Samos), Sophocles (in ""The Trachiniae"") and Hecataeus of Miletus (who locates Oechalia near Eretria) were aligned among with those who identified this Oechalia with the Euboean location. Homer, equivocally, and Apollodorus of Athens and Aristarchus of Samothrace placed it in Thessaly. Also, Demetrius of Scepsis placed it in Arcadia, and Homer also calls the Oechalia in Messenia"
"Viroconium Cornoviorum Viroconium or Uriconium, formally Viroconium Cornoviorum, was a Roman town, one corner of which is now occupied by Wroxeter, a small village in Shropshire, England, about east-south-east of Shrewsbury. At its peak, Viroconium is estimated to have been the 4th-largest Roman settlement in Britain, a ""civitas"" with a population of more than 15,000. The settlement probably lasted until the end of the 7th century or the beginning of the 8th. Extensive remains can still be seen. ""Viroconium"" is a Latinised form of a toponym that was reconstructed as Common Brittonic *Uiroconion ""[city] of *Uirokū"". *Uirokū ( ""man-wolf"") is"
"Charax Spasinu Spasinu Charax, or Charax Spasinu, Charax Pasinu, Charax Spasinou (), Alexandria (Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια), and Antiochia in Susiana (Greek: Ἀντιόχεια τῆς Σουσιανῆς) was an ancient port at the head of the Persian Gulf, and the capital of the ancient kingdom of Characene. The name Charax, probably from Greek Χάραξ, literally means ""palisaded fort"", and was applied to several fortified Seleucid towns. Charax was originally named Alexandria, after Alexander the Great, and was perhaps even personally founded by him. After destruction by floods, it was rebuilt by Antiochus IV (175-164 BC) and renamed Antiochia. It was at this time provided"
"Oloosson Oloosson () was a town and polis (city-state) of Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly near Elone and Gonnus, mentioned in the Catalogue of Ships in the ""Iliad"" by Homer, who gives to it the epithet of “white,” from its white argillaceous soil. In Procopius the name occurs in the corrupt form of Lossonus. Several Greek inscriptions have been found concerning the city of Oloosson. In a votive inscription from the first half of the fourth century BCE that is dedicated to Apollo Pythius are also the names of some people together with various demonyms from Perrhaebia. In another inscription dated"
"Many of them are related to the myths of Argos, and others indicate connections with Phoenicia, where the Mycenean Greeks and later the Euboean Greeks established trading posts. Important legends related to Boeotia include: Many of these legends were used in plays by the tragic Greek poets, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides: They were also used in lost plays such as Aeschylus's ""Niobe"" and Euripides's ""Antiope"". Boeotia was also notable for the ancient oracular shrine of Trophonius at Lebadea. Graea, an ancient city in Boeotia, is sometimes thought to be the origin of the Latin word ""Graecus"", from which English derives"
"Antigonia (Paeonia) Antigonia () also transliterated as Antigonea and Antigoneia was a Hellenistic city in Paeonia, modern Republic of Macedonia, placed in the Peutinger Table between Stenea (now named Prosek, near modern Demir Kapija) and Stobi, where present day city of Negotino is located. Our written sources about Antigonia of Paeonia are quite obscure. In a description of Paeonia, Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) lists a number of tribes, regions and towns. He tells us that Stobi is a town with many Roman citizens, followed by the phrase ""next comes Antigonea, Europus, upon the river Axius"" and so on. Thus,"
"Cowley, Oxfordshire Cowley () in Oxford, England, is a residential and industrial area that forms a small conurbation within greater Oxford. Cowley's neighbours are central Oxford to the northwest, Rose Hill and Blackbird Leys to the south, New Headington to the north and the villages of Horspath and Garsington across fields to the east. The Cowley area has been inhabited since Roman times. The line of a Roman road runs north-south along the eastern edge of Cowley. It linked a Roman town at Dorchester-on-Thames with a Roman military camp at Alchester near Bicester. A road called Roman Way follows part"
"has been suggested that it could have been and that fits more with Strabo's data is a hill near Dasochori. Oxyneia Oxyneia or Oxynia (), or Oxynium or Oxynion (Ὀξύνιον), was a town and polis (city-state) of ancient Thessaly, situated on the Ion, a tributary of the Peneius, and perhaps the capital of the Talares. It is described by Strabo as distant 120 stadia from Azorus. It is cited as a place that provided a ""theorodokos"" to Epidaurus in 359 BCE. Its site in unknown. It has traditionally been located in old Meritsa, which is currently called Oxyneia but that"
"Magnae Dobunnorum Magnae, sometimes Magnae Dobunnorum (Latin for ""The Greats of the Dobunni"") to distinguish it from the Magnae of the Carvetii in northern Britain, was a Romano-British town and an important market centre for the British Dobunni tribe, located near modern-day Kenchester in Herefordshire, England. The town was shaped as an irregular hexagon, with a single main street along the line of the main Roman Road running east–west through the area, and an irregular pattern of side streets with tightly packed buildings leading off it. The Roman town is securely identified with the ""Magnis"" which appears both in the"
"Gobannium Gobannium was a Roman fort and civil settlement or Castra established by the Roman legions invading what was to become Roman Wales and lies today under the market town of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire in south east Wales. Gobannium was first recorded in the Antonine Itinerary of the late 2nd century AD as 'Gobannio' sited some 12 miles from Burrium, (modern Usk) and 22 miles south of Magnis (now Kenchester, Herefordshire). Gobannium is also mentioned in the Ravenna Cosmography as 'Bannio', sited between Isca Augusta the major legionary fortress covering South Wales (Caerleon) further down the River Usk, and Bremia (Llanio,"
"they supply the Kings of the Bretons, and Domnonia itself was elevated as a result. Domnonée Domnonée is the modern French form of Domnonia or Dumnonia (Latin for ""Devon""; ), an historic kingdom in northern Armorica (Brittany) founded by British immigrants from Dumnonia (Sub-Roman Devon) fleeing the Saxon invasions of Britain in the early Middle Ages. Headed by the same ruling family, it was variously separate or united with its motherland and its Latin name was used for both indiscriminately. The mainland territory of Domnonée included Trégor, Dol-de-Bretagne through to Goélo, and Penthièvre. At the time of the Roman conquest"