Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place sacred from commonentry; a shrine. Same as
adytum .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun In Ancient Greece, an
enclosure in the temple of Asclepios where patients slept
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Examples
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To the south is preserved a building that has been identified with the priests 'residence or the "abaton" - the place where sick waited for Asklepios to appear to them in their dreams and heal them.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Maybe grab abaton and start conducting, as he did at a military ceremony in Berlin last year.
Boris In Autumn 2008
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Next in ii. 4 we have [Greek: abaton], "wilderness," where the text had [Hebrew: SHMH] and the translation should have [Greek: ekstasin].
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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[2] Dindorf, in his note, rightly approves the elegant reading [Greek: abroton (= apanthrôpon)] in lieu of the frigid [Greek: abaton].
Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1840
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For further information, visit the event website: www. abaton.de
MI6 :: 007 News 2009
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Station "covered it so that nobody could see it, and ordered that the building be called" [Greek: abaton]. "
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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