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- n. [lowercase] A celebrated Egyptian fish, Mormyrus oxyrhynchus; the mizdeh, formerly reverenced throughout Egypt, and sacred to the goddess Hathor. It is represented both in sculptures and on coins, and was anciently embalmed. See Mormyrus.
- n. In ornithology, a genus of American tyrant-flycatchers, having a long straight conic-acute bill, and green plumage with orange crown. O. frater is a Central American species.
- n. A genus of reptiles.
- n. In entomology: A genus of coleopterous insects of the family Curculionidæ, containing a few East Indian species.
- n. A genus of dipterous insects of the family Cecidomyidæ, characterized by the cylindric produced and attenuate neck.
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“Scholars have been using some high-tech methods to examine a cache of ancient Greek manuscripts called the Oxyrhynchus Papyri and have discovered the earliest known version of Revelation 13:18.”
“Mark Goodacre's NT Blog featured two videos on extracanonical texts: the Oxyrhynchus Hymn set to music, and a clip from a documentary about the discovery of the Nag Hammadi codices.”
“The Oxyrhynchus be Orbiting, the Prawns be Praying the sQuids be sQuirming….”
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“Pictured here is a papyrus fragment known as the Heracles Papyrus Oxford, Sackler Library, Oxyrhynchus Pap.”
“An Oxyrhynchus papyrus from around 200 AD and the Suda agree that Sappho had a mother called Cleïs and a daughter by the same name.”
“An article on the Oxyrhynchus papyrus, which could double the amount of ancient Greek literature available, including lost plays, poems and novels.”
“The Oxford documents form part of the great papyrus hoard salvaged from an ancient rubbish dump in the Graeco-Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus more than a century ago.”
“POxy: the Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project, which is documenting the wealth of papyri found in the rubbish dump of an ancient Egyptian town, currently in the news after many papyri were made readable by multispectral infrared imaging.”
“I am presently publishing a Oxyrhynchus Papyrus from Columbia Un at Oxford, an early Greek liturgical manuscript and a Coptic bifolio containing a montage of fascinating material.”
“It's like an new Oxyrhynchus, giving us a glimpse of daily life in an antique world long gone.”
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