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Roman tombstones often included the
letters D.M.,
which stood for Dis
Manibus,
literally "to the Manes", or figuratively, "to the
spirits of the dead"...
- VI Victrix, at
Whitley Castle (Epia****),
illustrated above left. - Dis
Manibus Gai Iuli
Galeria tribu Caleni Lugduno veterani ex
legione VI
Victrice Pia...
- not your thoughts,
neither are your ways My ways",
Isaiah 55, 8–9. dis
manibus sacrum (D.M.S.)
Sacred to the ghost-gods
Refers to the Manes, i.e. Roman...
- 30 AD), who
wrote in
Memorable Doings and Sayings, "... sed
protecto manibus puluere 'noli' inquit, 'obsecro,
istum disturbare'" ("... but protecting...
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remembrance in February. A
standard Roman funerary inscription is Dis
Manibus (to the Manes-gods).
Regional variations include its Gr**** equivalent,...
- 20.
Poole 1917, pp. 20–21. “Post
multa turpia adulteria et
homicidia manibus suis perpetrata, postremo, etc.”Dümmler,
Ernst Ludwig (1891), Monumenta...
-
Roman Widow or Dîs
Manibus is an oil on
canvas painting executed in 1874 by the
English Pre-Raphaelite
artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It is in the collection...
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inferis Manibus. D.M. – Deo Magno,
Dignus memoria, Di(i)s
Manibus ("To the Manes/spirits of the departed"), Dolo malo. D.M.P.S. – Dis
Manibus (et) perpetuae...
- ed.), Et
cepit de
praedicto Henrico tres
denarios de
Argento Dei prae
manibus ("And he took it from the
aforesaid Henry [sealed by a]
silver three pence...
- tomb was
erected in his
honour at Brixellum, with the
inscription Diis
Manibus Marci Othonis. His 91-day
reign would be the
shortest until that of Pertinax...
