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The line referred to is {Ou moi ta Gugeo tou polukhrosou melei}.
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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The line referred to is {Ou moi ta Gugeo tou polukhrosou melei}.
The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883
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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
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* peri agapēs ou melei autois, ou peri chēras, ou peri orphanou, ou peri thlibomenou, ou peri dedemenou ē lelumenou, ē peri peinōntos ē dipsōntos: [1371] 1
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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(me ton boon melei to Theo;) or saith He it altogether for our sakes?
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A hero perish, or a sparrow fall; "and, assured that carelessness in a just Creator of his poor dependent creatures must be impossible, I submit that, critically speaking, some laudable variation might be made in that text by the simple consideration that [Greek: melei] is not so strictly rendered" care for "as [Greek: kedetai].
An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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A hero perish, or a sparrow fall; "and, assured that carelessness in a just Creator of his poor dependent creatures must be impossible, I submit that, critically speaking, some laudable variation might be made in that text by the simple consideration that [Greek: melei] is not so strictly rendered" care for "as [Greek: kedetai].
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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