Marius Mercator must have shared the vigour of Alcimus, for he floruit in 218 according to Mr. Miller , while he at any rate existed in 418.
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Floruit
//ˈflɔɹ(j)uɪt//
Synonyms for "floruit" (1 found)
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9 translations across 4 languages.
Dutch
3 entries- bloei noun (peak period of a person/culture/group)
- bloeiperiode noun (peak period of a person/culture/group)
- bloeitijd noun (peak period of a person/culture/group)
Finnish
2 entries- kukoistus noun (peak period of a person/culture/group)
- kukoistuskausi noun (peak period of a person/culture/group)
Hebrew
1 entries- תקופת השיא noun (peak period of a person/culture/group)
Tibetan
3 entries- གསོན་པའི་དུས noun (peak period of a person/culture/group)
- གྲགས་པ་ཆེ་བའི་རིང noun (peak period of a person/culture/group)
- འཚོ་རིང noun (peak period of a person/culture/group)
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J. Joyce (floruit 1850) In 1926 Svevo wrote a letter to James Joyce in Paris inquiring if he were related to the J. Joyce who in 1850 had had printed and published by Lloyd Austriaco in Trieste a book[...]
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Mīrā (Bai). Floruit 16th century. Rajasthan's most famous female saint and poetess of Kṛṣṇa bhakti.
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Though Aristotle claimed that a human being reaches his intellectual peak at age forty-nine (Rhetoric 1390b9), chronologists reckon a person's flowering—his floruit—at about age forty. The mists of time have made the precise reckoning of chronology quite difficult. Sometimes, when a birth is not known, a floruit can be estimated on the basis of what is known about an individual's career.
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