Lake Regillus,
Under the Porcian height,
All in the land of Tusculum,
Was fought the glorious fight.
Macaulay, _Lays of Ancient Rome_ (1842).
A very parallel case occurs in the life of Mahomet. The Koreishites had
armed to put down "the prophet;" but Mahomet met them in arms, and on
January 13, 624, won the famous battle of Bedr. In the _Kor[^a]n_ (ch.
iii.), he tells us that the angel Gabriel, on his horse, Ha[:i]z[^u]m,
appeared on the field with 3000 "angels," and won the battle for him.
In the conquest of Mexico, we are told that St. James appeared on his
grey horse at the head of the Castilian adventurers, and led them on to
victory. Bernal Diaz, who was in the battle, saw the grey horse, but
fancies the rider was Francesco de Morla, though, he confesses, "it
might be the glorious apostle St. James" for aught he knew.
=Regimen of the School of Salerno=, a collection of precepts in Latin
verse, written by John of Milan, a poet of the eleventh century, for
Robert, the duke of Normandy.
A volume universally known
As the "Regimen of the School of Salern."
Longfellow, _The Golden Legend_ (1851).
=Reginald Archer.= A refined, debonnaire sensualist, courted by women and
envied by men. He wooes and marries a gentle, pure heiress, and would,
as her husband, break her heart were not the evil work cut short by his
death at the hands of a man whose wife Reginald has lured from her
allegiance to her lawful lord.--Anne Crane Seemuller, _Reginald Archer_
(1865).
=Region of Death=, (_Marovsthulli_), Thurr, near Delhi, fatal, from some
atmospheric influence, especially about sunset.
=Regno= (_The_), Naples.
Are our wiser heads leaning towards an alliance with the pope and
the Regno?--George Eliot (Marian Evans).
=Reg'ulus=, a Roman general, who conquered the Carthaginians (B.C. 256),
and compelled them to sue for peace. While negotiation was going on, the
Carthaginians, joined by Xanthippos, the Lacedemonian, attacked the
Romans at Tunis, and beat them, taking Regulus prisoner. The captive was
sent to Rome to make terms of peace and demand exchange of prisoners,
but he used all his influence with the senate to dissuade them from
coming to terms with their foe. On his return to captivity, the
Cathaginians[TN-120] cut off his eyelids and exposed him to the burning
sun, then placed him in a barrel armed with nails, which was rolled up
and down a hill till t
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