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    Georg Otto August Wissowa (17 June 1859 – 11 May 1931) was a German classical philologist born in Neudorf, near Breslau. Wissowa studied classical philology...
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    fully and in every respect," as the 19th-century classical scholar Georg Wissowa described it. Cicero suggests people should have awareness of their...
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    pointing out a statue depicting the god at Castrum Inui ("Fort Inuus"). Georg Wissowa rejected both the etymology and the identification of Inuus with Faunus...
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    The cult of Nenia is doubtlessly a very old one, but according to Georg Wissowa the location of Nenia's shrine (sacellum) outside the center of early...
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    kaleidoscope, and can no longer be re-arranged on the original Varronian plan. Georg Wissowa, however, asserted that Varro's lists were not indigitamenta, but di...
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    volume came out in 1866, with the rest of the work left incomplete. Georg Wissowa began work on a new and more ambitious edition in 1890. Paulys Realencyclopädie...
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  • Ad Quintum Fratrem 3, 1. As observed by Dumézil[citation needed] and Georg Wissowa.[citation needed] Martianus Capella; Eyssenhardt, Francis (1866). Martianus...
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    be found in Smith, Wayte, & Marindin (1890). Classical philologist Georg Wissowa maintained that the ritual of the Salii is a war dance or a sword dance...
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    "younger"). This etymology became widely accepted after it was endorsed by Georg Wissowa. Iuuen- is related to Latin aevum and Greek aion (αἰών) through a common...
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    patron of the armed community in time of peace. The 19th-century scholar Georg Wissowa thought that the Romans distinguished two classes of gods, the di indigetes...
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