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Asper   Listen
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Asper  n.  (Greek Gram.) The rough breathing; a mark placed over an initial vowel sound or over rho to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with h before it.





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"Asper" Quotes from Famous Books



... brought forward a proposal, that whoever proposed he election of tribunes of the people before the commons, should go on taking the votes, until he elected ten tribunes of the people; and he spent his tribuneship in worrying the patricians, whence the surname of Asper was given him. Next Marcus Geganius Macerinus, and Gaius Julius, being elected consuls, quieted some disputes that had arisen between the tribunes and the youth of the nobility, without displaying any harshness against that power, and at the same time preserving the dignity ...
— Roman History, Books I-III • Titus Livius


Words linked to "Asper" :   piaster, Turkish monetary unit


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