Siris

Nile, which they called Siris, and admonished them when to sow.

The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen Roger Thompson Finlay

Carole Fabricant explains that, in Siris, Berkeley adopts the role of a physician capable of restoring ailing patients to a state of utopian health.

Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillie’s Comedies 2008

Titular metropolitan see in Macedonia, more correctly Serrhae, is called Siris by Herodotus (VIII, 115), Sirae by Titus Livius (XLV, iv).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

In his hilarious spoof on contemporary advocates of apophatic theology, the blogger "Siris" cites something called "the Dopeler effect": "the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly."

The Dopeler Effect: the atheism file Mike L 2006

In his hilarious spoof on contemporary advocates of apophatic theology, the blogger "Siris" cites something called "the Dopeler effect": "the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly."

Archive 2006-11-01 Mike L 2006

By the way, although this is just a guess, I think Berkeley may have had this passage from the Iliad in mind when he coined the term 'Siris' by Anglicizing a Greek word for cord or chain:

Archive 2005-08-01 2005

By the way, although this is just a guess, I think Berkeley may have had this passage from the Iliad in mind when he coined the term 'Siris' by Anglicizing a Greek word for cord or chain:

Natural Vaticination and a Golden Chain 2005

I can't really tell you which posts I like, because I haven't had time to read any except the ones I had read pre-carnival, including the one by Siris which is good, as usual and the one by Jason Stanley at the Leiter Reports.

Philosophers' Carnival VI: The Aussie Connection Chris 2004

In these regions A. lebbeck, also known as "Siris" or "Indian Siris", grows in a wide range of climates, covering an annual rainfall range of 600 -

Chapter 10 1996

In these regions A. lebbeck, also known as "Siris" or "Indian Siris", grows in a wide range of climates, covering an annual rainfall range of 600 -

Chapter 8 1996