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  • What distinguishes this great work is the inbreathed spirit of divinity, more overpowering here than in any other of the extant [Greek: andriantes kai agalmata].

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

  • What distinguishes this great work is the inbreathed spirit of divinity, more overpowering here than in any other of the extant [Greek: andriantes kai agalmata].

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866

  • Yet, I don't know whether anyone else has seen the figures within (ta entos agalmata) when he is serious and opened up, but I saw them once, and I thought that they were so divine and golden, so marvelously beautiful, that I just had to do whatever Socrates told me” (216e4-217a2).

    Plato on Friendship and Eros Reeve, C. D. C. 2007

  • [Greek: eusebesteroi esmen kai Theon kai ta agalmata sebontes] (Clemens

    History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

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