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  • And do you know that the ancients said dougon and not zugon?

    The CRATYLUS Plato 1975

  • And zugon (yoke) has no meaning, - it ought to be duogon, which word expresses the binding of two together (duein agoge) for the purpose of drawing; - this has been changed into zugon, and there are many other examples of similar changes.

    The CRATYLUS Plato 1975

  • Christ ([Greek: bastazein holon ton zugon tou kuriou]).

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

  • SOCRATES: And zugon (yoke) has no meaning, -- it ought to be duogon, which word expresses the binding of two together (duein agoge) for the purpose of drawing; -- this has been changed into zugon, and there are many other examples of similar changes.

    Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • SOCRATES: And do you know that the ancients said duogon and not zugon?

    Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • So again, zugon is duogon, quasi desis duein eis agogen -- (the binding of two together for the purpose of drawing.)

    Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • [Late Latin s [ymacr] zygia, from Greek suzugiā, union, from suzugos, paired: sun -, su -, syn - + zugon, yoke.]

    Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle 2009

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