See also:

• ANECDOTE (from av-, privative, and isSLSwµu, to give out or publish)

ANECDOTE (from av-, privative, and isSLSwµu, to give out or publish)  , a word originally meaning something not published . It has now two distinct significations . The See also:

• PRIMARY

primary one is something not published, in which sense it has been used to denote either See also:

• SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

secret histories—See also:

• PROCOPIUS

Procopius, e.g., gives this as one of the titles of his secret See also:

• HISTORY

history of Justinian's See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court—or portions of See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient writers which have remained See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long in See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript and are edited for the first See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time . Of such anecdota there are many collections; the earliest was probably L . A . See also:

• MURATORI

Muratori's, in 1709 . In the more See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general and popular acceptation of the word, however, anecdotes are See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short accounts of detached interesting particulars . Of such anecdotes the collections are almost See also:

• INFINITE (from Lat. in, not, finis, end or limit; cf. findere, to deave)

infinite; the best in many respects is that compiled by T . Byerley (d . 1826) and J . See also:

• CLINTON
• CLINTON, DE WITT (1769-1828)
• CLINTON, GEORGE (1739-1812)
• CLINTON, HENRY FYNES (1781-1852)
• CLINTON, SIR HENRY (c. 1738-1795)

Clinton See also:

• ROBERTSON, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1816-1853)
• ROBERTSON, GEORGE CROOM (1842-1892)
• ROBERTSON, JOSEPH (1810-1866)
• ROBERTSON, THOMAS WILLIAM (1829-1871)
• ROBERTSON, WILLIAM BRUCE (182o-1886)

Robertson (d . 1852), known as the See also:

• PERCY (FAMILY)
• PERCY, SIR HENRY
• PERCY, THOMAS (1729-1811)
• PERCY, THOMAS (c. 156o-16os)

Percy Anecdotes (1820-1823) .