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  • [2] Charismata de heichon, hoi men elattona, hoi de pleio; kai touto aition schismatos autois egeneto, ou para ten oikeian phusin, alla para agnomosunen ton eilephoton; hoite gar ta meizona echontes eperonto kata ton ta elattona kektemenon; outoi de au palin elgoun, kai tois ta meizona echousin ephthonoun.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • * Charismata de heichon, hoi men elattona, hoi de pleio; kai touto aition schismatos autois egeneto, ou para ten oikeian phusin, alla para agnomosunen ton eilephoton; hoite gar ta meizona echontes eperonto kata ton ta elattona kektemenon; outoi de au palin elgoun, kai tois ta meizona echousin ephthonoun.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • [Greek: apodeixin mêdemian peri hôn legousin echousin alla alogôs hôs hupo lukou arnes sunêrpasmenoi k.t.l.].

    History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • 27 [Greek: _nomos te ou poly hysteron ekyrhothae, taen gaen, hyper haes dietheronto, exeinai pipraskein tois echousin_.] [770] App. l.c. [Greek: _kai euthus oi plousioi para ton penaeton eonounto, hae taisde tais prophasesin ebiazonto_.] [771] The law permitting alienation may have been in 121 B.C. The year

    A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

  • Neso en amphiryte; chalepoi de min andres echousin.] [

    The History of Napoleon Buonaparte Lockhart, John G 1906

  • Hôs de ge ahi prôtai ousiai pros ta alla echousin, outô kai to eidos pros to genos echei hypokeitai gar to eidos tô genei].

    Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius 1839

  • "[Greek: Hoplisios de tês Indôn ouk hôutos eis tropos, all oi men pezoi autoisi toxon te echousin, isomêkes tps phoreonti to toxon, kai touto katô epi tên gên thentes kai tps podi tps aristerps antibantes, outôs ektoxeuousi, tên neurên epi mega opisô apagagontes."

    Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836

  • Statements such as these must have had their origin in the hairs, which are set round the mouth of the dugong, somewhat resembling a beard, which Ælian and Megasthenes both particularise, from their resemblance to the hair of a woman: "[Greek: kai gynaikôn opsin echousin aisper anti plokamôn akanthai prosêrtêntai"] [2] [Footnote 1: MEGASTHENES, _Indica_, fragm. lix.

    Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836

  • [Greek: 'Dio kai eupetesteron ek tês Sêstou diairousi parallaxamenoi mikron epi ton tês Hêrous purgon, kakeithen aphientes ta ploia sumprattontos tou rhou pros tên peraiôsin: Tois d' ex Abudou peraioumenois parallakteon estin eis tanantia, oktô pou stadious epi purgon tina kat 'antikru tês Sêstou, epeita diairein plagion, kai mê teleôs echousin enantion ton rhoun.'

    Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815

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