Example sentences for: antiquity

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  • Taxonomic treatments for Artemisia over the past 50 years range from maintaining a single, large genus of over 500 species [ 32 33 34 35 36 37 ] to the recognition of six to eight genera from within its taxonomic boundaries [ 2 38 39 ] . Artemisia of antiquity was divided into three genera ( Artemisia, Absinthium, and Abrotanum ) by Tournefort [ 40 ] . However, the concept of a more inclusive genus was resurrected by Linnaeus [ 41 ] , hereinafter, referred to as Artemisia s.l . Besser [ 42 ] and de Candolle [ 43 ] recognized four sections within Artemisia s.l.

  • Named after the mountain home of antiquity’s Muses, Paris’s “Mount Parnassus” was a mound left after quarrying — long gone, but remaining an inspiration to artists.

  • Religious writers in antiquity penned notations that sometimes, we now know, were later absorbed wholesale into the primary text itself.

  • This was the commercial dock area in antiquity, and more recently the site of the modern city's slaughterhouse, not much frequented by tourists, although it is near the cemetery that contains the grave of John Keats.

  • This shews the antiquity of this invention, which is at least as old as the Conquest.


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