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  • It is doubtful whether Homer means personified beauty when he uses the noun kallos.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT DIECKMANN 1968

  • Kai gar hoi ophthalmoi kaloi kai chresimoi, all 'ean boulontai choris photos horan, ouden autous to kallos oninesin, oude he oikeia ischus, alla kai parablapei.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Kai gar hoi ophthalmoi kaloi kai chresimoi, all 'ean boulontai choris photos horan, ouden autous to kallos oninesin, oude he oikeia ischus, alla kai parablapei.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • From [Greek: pitta] pitch, and [Greek: kallos] ornament, the blue is named _Pittacal_.

    Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

  • But, the superessential Beautiful is called Beauty, on account of the beauty communicated from Itself to all beautiful things, in a manner appropriate to each, and as Cause of the good harmony and brightness of all things which flashes like light to all the beautifying distributions of its fontal ray, and as calling (kaloun) all things to Itself (whence also it is called Beauty) (kallos), and as collecting all in all to Itself.

    Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897

  • [35] paradeise pantime, to horaiotaton kallos -- (Stichera), 121

    Hymns of the Holy Eastern Church 1902

  • [Greek: Hôs an exêrtêmenais (tais psuchais ap 'autou (tou Osiridos kai theômenais aplêstôs kai pothousais to mê phaton mêde rhêton anthrôpois kallos].

    The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

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    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • [Greek: to kallos en megalo somati, hoi mikroi d 'asteioi kai summetroi, kaloi d' ou.] -- "beauty consists in a large body; the petite are pretty and symmetrical, but not beautiful." [

    Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

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