catena

This treatise may be regarded, in its general outlines, as a philosophical amplification of the passage in Horace:—     Ira furor brevis est: animum rege; qui, nisi paret,     Imperat: hunc fraenis, hunc tu compesce catena.

From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 06: Nero by Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius

What could be easier than to form a catena of the most philosophical defenders of Christianity, who have exhausted language in declaring the impotence of the unassisted intellect?

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry

St. Matthew in vermilion with catena in black.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

And this catena of passages might be largely extended.

From Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" by Lightfoot, Joseph Barber

We have thus established what we believe is called by theologians a catena of precedents, coming down from the days of the Commonwealth to our own time.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various

It is beautifully written, and contains catenae, Victor's commentary on St. Mark, and other treatises enumerated by Scholz, who collated most of it.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

The Received text is supported by the third hand of C, by EHLP, by all the cursives, by the two Syriac and Armenian versions, the catenae, Chrysostom and Theophylact.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

But this dependence upon superiors is but one chain of the lovers of power, Amatorem trecentae Pirithoum cohibent catenae.

From Cowley's Essays by Cowley, Abraham