This, then, is their horrid counsel and device-thateach one of their gods should kill his antecessor.
2
One suggestion is that they were a species called Homo antecessor, which was known to have lived in southern Europe.
3
The hominid has been identified as homo antecessor, or pioneer man, a possible ancestor of both our own species and Neanderthals.
4
The former holder is marked by the perfectly colourless word "ancestor" ("antecessor"), a word as yet meaning, not "forefather," but "predecessor" of any kind.
5
Antecessor then gave them a horn, with some salve in it, wherewith they anointed themselves.
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He told her that she must be married first, & the Queen said she was married to Antecessor.