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Christian Era n
(Historical Terms) the period beginning with the year of Christ's birth. Dates in this era are labelled ad, those previous to it bc Also called Common Era ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| It was for the Mediterranean sailors that fair-haired sirens sang among the black rocks seething in white foam and mysterious voices spoke in the darkness above the moving wave - voices menacing, seductive, or prophetic, like that voice heard at the beginning of the Christian era by the master of an African vessel in the Gulf of Syrta, whose calm nights are full of strange murmurs and flitting shadows. ** This obscure reference applies to a blind negro musician who took the world by storm in the latter half of the nineteenth century of the Christian Era. Phaedrus, a slave by birth or by subsequent misfortunes, and admitted by Augustus to the honors of a freedman, imitated many of these fables in Latin iambics about the commencement of the Christian era. |
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