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  • Seaboard and make acquaintance with a Jinn whose soul is outside his body: thus he resembles Hermotimos of Klazamunae in Apollonius, whose spirit left his mortal frame à discretion.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Apollonius, which is clearly asserted by Suidas, on account of chronological calculations which are themselves uncertain.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • However that may be, it is rather arbitrary to take away the "bibliothecariate" of Apollonius, which is clearly asserted by Suidas, on account of chronological calculations which are themselves uncertain.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • However that may be, it is rather arbitrary to take away the "bibliothecariate" of Apollonius, which is clearly asserted by Suidas, on account of chronological calculations which are themselves uncertain.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • He had even brought back with him from that city a Greek by name Apollonius, who knew excellent secrets for designing in mosaic.

    The Well of Saint Clare Anatole France 1884

  • One of their most surprising instances -- in fact, perhaps, absolutely the leading impostor -- was the sage or charlatan (for it is difficult to determine which) known as Apollonius Tyanæus so called from Tyana, in

    The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages 1850

  • For this feat, the Ephesians called Apollonius a god, and reared a statue to his honor.

    The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages 1850

  • The authors included Aristotle, Aquinas, Milton, Locke, Hume and Mill along with some especially dense texts such as Apollonius '"On Conic Sections."

    Lessons From the Great Books Generation 2008

  • Despite these attacks on figures such as Apollonius and Alexander who modeled themselves on Pythagoras, the Pythagorean way of life was in general praised; the Neopythagorean tradition which portrays Pythagoras as living the ideal life on which we should model our own reaches its culmination in Iamblichus 'On the Pythagorean Life and Porphyry's Life of Pythagoras

    Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

  • But as an example of narrative style it is very far indeed from being contemptible: and in passages such as Apollonius 'escape from shipwreck, and his wooing of the daughter of Arcestrates, there is something which is different from style, and with which style is not always found in company -- that faculty of telling a story which has been already referred to.

    The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

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