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  • It would have been inexpedient to have taken aught (the Greek "meden" implies, not that they got nothing, though they had desired it, but that it was of their own choice they took nothing) from the infant churches among the heathen: the case was different in receiving hospitality from Gaius.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Lenz reads un koluein dia meden (see his note ad v. 34), and translates (p. 61), “Dass man die Jager nicht hindern solle, in allem was die Erde hervorbrachte zu jagen,” “not to hinder the huntsmen from ranging over any of the crops which spring from earth”;

    On Hunting 2007

  • He obviously didn't ascribe to our Athenian saying, meden agan -- nothing in excess.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • Egyptians, together with all those who inhabit the Erythraean confines, and dwell along the shores and coasts of the Red Sea, some sour prickings and smart stingings in his arms and legs of those little speckled dragons which the Arabians call meden.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Egyptians, together with all those who inhabit the Erythraean confines, and dwell along the shores and coasts of the Red Sea, some sour prickings and smart stingings in his arms and legs of those little speckled dragons which the Arabians call meden.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Lk. 13: 2 hamartoloi para pantas tous Galilaious, 3: 13 meden pleon para to diatetagmenon humin prassete, and after verbs in -

    A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

  • Lego d 'hulen e kath' hauten mete ti, mete poson, mete allo meden legetai hois horistai to on; esti gar ti kath 'hou kategoreitai touton hekaston, ho to einai heteron, kai ton kategoreon hekaste.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • Lego d 'hulen e kath' hauten mete ti, mete poson, mete allo meden legetai hois horistai to on; esti gar ti kath 'hou kategoreitai touton hekaston, ho to einai heteron, kai ton kategoreon hekaste.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • The language of the first great reformer is that which I should use in reply to the exultation of our Tories here, if there were any of them who could understand it sebou, proseukhou thopte ton kratount aei emoi d'elasson Zeuos e meden melei. drato krateito tonde ton brakhun khronon opes thelei daron gar ouk arksei theois

    Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883

  • Lenz reads {un koluein dia meden} (see his note ad v. 34), and translates (p. 61), "Dass man die Jager nicht hindern solle, in allem was die Erde hervorbrachte zu jagen," "not to hinder the huntsmen from ranging over any of the crops which spring from earth"; (but if so, we should expect {dia medenos}).

    The Sportsman 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

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