How To Use Arminius In A Sentence
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The interpretation of scripture was polarized between the selective literalism of Calvinism and the more liberal application found within the teachings of Arminius.
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But Arminius is German, born and bred, and has never stopped hating the Romans, nor planning for ways to drive them out and gain the freedom of Germany and all his people.
REVIEW: Give Me Back My Legions! by Harry Turtledove
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And thanks to Turtledove's writing, you can find yourself in a novel full of names like "Arminius" and "Varus" and "Aristocles" and many more, and you will not get confused as to who is talking, and who they are referring to.
REVIEW: Give Me Back My Legions! by Harry Turtledove
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And we also spend time with Arminius, who is building resentment against the Romans and trying to find strategies to organize his people and defeat a tactically and strategically superior force.
REVIEW: Give Me Back My Legions! by Harry Turtledove
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Maurice of Jacob Harmensz, better known as Arminius, to the Chair of
History of Holland
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Though we probably should allow them an army; it just dawned to me that most successful historical leaders have won because of their skills as generals, not because they personally kicked ass (though some, like Arminius and Attila were no mean fighters themselves).
Cage Matches
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La Calprenède, as we have seen, does not give Arminius's wife her usual name of Thusnelda, but, to obviate a complaint from readers who have heard of Varus, he invents a protest on "Herman sla lerman" part against that general, who has trepanned him into captivity and gladiatorship, and makes him warn Augustus that he will be true to the Romans _unless_
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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In his last drama, "Arminius," he extravagantly scatters his panegyrics on its fifteen predecessors; but of the present one he has the most exalted notion: it is the quintessence of Scudery!
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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Arminius, a prince of the Cherusci, is playing a deadly game.
Give Me Back My Legions! by Harry Turtledove: Book summary
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A further problem arises when Olson wants to distance from the term 'Arminian' those liberal theologians or students of Arminius who put forth views Olson doesn't like.
Triablogue
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Of or relating to the theology of Jacobus Arminius and his followers, who believed that predestination was conditioned by God's foreknowledge of human free choices.
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The other character is Arminius, a Roman Citizen and member of the Equestrian Order (which is just below the Senate and is very prominent, in Roman culture).
REVIEW: Give Me Back My Legions! by Harry Turtledove
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Maurice may have wept as sincerely over the errors of Arminius as any one of "the crocodile crew that believe in election;" Barneveld and Grotius may have been on the road to Rome; none of these things seem probable, but if they were all proved true in opposition to his views, we should still have the long roll of glowing tapestry he has woven for us, with all its life-like portraits, its almost moving pageants, its sieges where we can see the artillery flashing, its battle-fields with their smoke and fire, -- pictures which cannot fade, and which will preserve his name interwoven with their own enduring colors.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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Arminius, Germāniae līberātor, _Arminius, liberator of Germany_.a. To denote single instances of an action, other expressions are commonly employed; as, --
New Latin Grammar
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M. 's book against Vorstius and Arminius, and noted your zeal to deliver the majesty of God from the vain and indign comprehensions of heresy and degenerate philosophy, as you had by your pen formerly endeavoured to deliver kings from the usurpation of Rome, _perculsit illico animum_ that God would set shortly upon you some visible favour, _and let me not live if I thought not of the taking away of that man_.
Bacon
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One of the pupils, Count zur Lippe, whose name was Hermann, was called "Arminius," in memory of the conqueror of Varus.
The Story of My Life
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In the early part of the seventeenth century Arminius introduced a new system of doctrine in the Reformed churches of Holland.
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His opposite number was Arminius, a Germanic chieftain who had served in the Roman army as commander of auxiliary forces and was, therefore, a Roman citizen.
