Heliogabalus
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /ˌhiː.li.əʊˈɡæb.ə.ləs/
- (America) enPR: hē'lēəgăbʹələs, IPA: /ˌhiː.li.əˈɡæb.ə.ləs/
- (America) enPR: hē'lēōgăbʹələs, IPA: /ˌhiː.li.oʊˈɡæb.ə.ləs/
- (historical) A Roman emperor of the Severan dynasty who reigned from 218 to 222. He was known for perverse and decadent behavior with regard especially to sex, religion, and food.
- 1689 — John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, ch xxvii
- But yet I think nobody, could he be sure that the soul of Heliogabalus were in one of his hogs, would yet say that hog were a man or Heliogabalus.
- 1726 October 27, [Jonathan Swift], chapter VIII, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: Printed for Benj[amin] Motte, […], OCLC 995220039 ↗, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan):
- I spent five days in conversing with many others of the ancient learned. I saw most of the first Roman emperors. I prevailed on the governor to call up Heliogabalus's cooks to dress us a dinner, but they could not show us much of their skill, for want of materials.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, “The Introduction to the Work, or Bill of Fare to the Feaſt”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume I, London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗, book I, page 5 ↗:
- How pleaſed therefore will the Reader be to find, that we have, in the following Work, adhered cloſely to one of the higheſt Principles of the beſt Cook which the preſent Age, or perhaps that of Heliogabalus, hath produced. This great Man, as is well known to all polite Lovers of eating, begins at firſt by ſetting plain Things before his hungry Gueſts, riſing afterwards by Degrees, as their Stomachs may be ſuppoſed to decreaſe, to the very Quinteſſence of Sauce and Spices.
- 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, “I am the very pattern of a modern major-general”, in The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, OCLC 1013339033 ↗, page 16 ↗:
- I quote in elegiac#English|elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
- 1689 — John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, ch xxvii
- The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus_(deity) Syro-Roman sun god] of whom the Emperor was formerly high priest.
- French: Héliogabale
- Italian: Eliogabalo
- Spanish: Heliogábalo
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