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Intercession after the "Supplices" prayer, and exactly corresponds to the order suggested above.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Supplices (387-91), first performed in 464/3 B.C., so that the adoption of a new term to replace thesmos must fall within the period 511/10 and 464/3.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968
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That the earliest surviving use of nomos as “statute” occurs in Aeschylus 'Supplices
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968
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The establishment of an institution is involved also in the Supplices, where sexual intercourse is called a thesmos of Aphrodite (1034), and in Pindar's naming the Olympic Games as a tethmos of Heracles and the
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968
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Zeus, too, mentioned by both Aeschylus and Sopho - cles (Supplices 670-73; Oedipus at Colonus 1382), must be the source of norms rather than the norms themselves; and when Creon states in the Antigone
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968
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The _Supplices_, written about 421, carries a little further the history of the Seven against Thebes.
Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb
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_Supplices_ (1821), _Eumenides_ (1822) and _Prometheus_ (1831); Sophocles '
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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That reminds me: I read a terrible, little book the other day, Octave Mirbeau's 'Le Jardin des Supplices'; it is quite awful, a sadique joy in pain pulses through it; but for all that it's wonderful.
Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916
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Of the essential clause left out -- our prayer: "Supplices te rogamus"
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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As an example, let the prayer said after the reading of the diptychs of the dead be compared with our Supra quae and Supplices te rogamus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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