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  • A spokesscot for the paper said: We arena backin Labour, but we arena backin Cameron aither.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • A spokesscot for the paper said: We arena backin Labour, but we arena backin Cameron aither.

    Mentalists together again 2009

  • (Fr. 10) ¦ how the earth and sun and moon/and the shared aither and the heavenly milk and Olympos/outermost and the hot might of the stars began/to come to be.

    Parmenides Palmer, John 2008

  • An tu awl lurkez wich iz wurryed abowt nawt no-in ennywun, ai duznt noe ennywun aither, we canz hab inishul shainess folerd bai freedrinkz den allrownd hapines al togeder!

    Teh Cheez Has Landed in London! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Much of the advice is common to all of Greek ethical thought (e.g. honoring the gods and parents; mastering lust and anger; deliberating before acting, following measure in all things), but there are also mentions of dietary restrictions typical of early Pythagoreanism and the promise of leaving the body behind to join the aither as an immortal.

    Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

  • “Air” refers to aither, the upper, atmospheric air, rather than the air that we breathe here on earth.

    Empedocles Parry, Richard 2005

  • Empedocles says that flesh and blood are composed of approximately equal parts of earth, fire, water, and aither (B 98).

    Empedocles Parry, Richard 2005

  • Anaxagoras, however, scandalously misuses this name, taking aither as equivalent to fire.

    On the Heavens 2002

  • And so, implying that the primary body is something else beyond earth, fire, air, and water, they gave the highest place a name of its own, aither, derived from the fact that it ‘runs always’ for an eternity of time.

    On the Heavens 2002

  • I think that's who it was, or aither somebody had told the governor to do it, or the governor said that they ought to do it.

    Oral History Interview with William Dallas Herring, February 14, 1987. Interview C-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1987

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