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  • Now a Swiss filmmaker named Bernard Weber has launched an effort to survey humanity for its views on designating the New Seven Wonders of the World, an updated version of the list compiled by Philon of Byzantium in 200 B.C.

    Wonders Never Cease 2004

  • Now a Swiss filmmaker named Bernard Weber has launched an effort to survey humanity for its views on designating the New Seven Wonders of the World, an updated version of the list compiled by Philon of Byzantium in 200 B.C.

    Wonders Never Cease 2004

  • But Aristobulus and Chares, who held the office of reporter of requests, Ptolemy and Anticlides, Philon the Theban, Philip of

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Ammonius, pupil of Philon, the Platonist, pronounced them stupid, and told the Greeks that he laughed at their oracles.

    Herodias 2003

  • Water wheels were already described by Philon in 230 B.C.

    19.1 Bicycle drive pedal drive 1993

  • But I beg you, as many of you as are better speakers than I, to declare that his sins are (even) greater, and out of what I leave unsaid you are to accuse Philon about what you yourselves know.

    The Orations of Lysias 440? BC-380 BC Lysias

  • Philon deliuered hir: and upon the sute of hir subiects, she is contented to mary him, and thereby he is made Kynge of Corinth.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • Philon here, not indeed because I follow up any private enmity, nor rising among you because I am able and accustomed to speak, but realizing

    The Orations of Lysias 440? BC-380 BC Lysias

  • So I will show that this Philon has cared more for his personal safety than for the common danger of the commonwealth, and that he thinks it better for him to live his life without danger than for the state to be in safety, even while endangering other citizens.

    The Orations of Lysias 440? BC-380 BC Lysias

  • (_Philon als Ausleger der heiligen Schrift_), Freudenthal

    Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927

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