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  • a frothy nature, which differs from all juices, having a burning quality which dissolves the flesh; it is called opos (a vegetable acid).

    Timaeus 2006

  • a burning quality which dissolves the flesh; it is called opos (a vegetable acid).

    Timaeus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • [Greek: 'Logos philanthr'opos',] the divine humanity, the humane God, who retained unseen, kept back, or (in the 'catachresis' characteristic of the Phoenicio-Grecian mythology) stole, a portion or 'ignicula from the living spirit of law, which remained with the celestial gods unexpended [Greek: en t_o nomizesthai.]

    Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • I do a lot of rest day working but would not touch it if I did not get OT neither would alot of my opos.

    Anyone Seen The Sun Today? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • Aghazal examined them closely and found a secret well behind one of the tortoiseshell fingernails, for opos and the like, she said.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Aghazal examined them closely and found a secret well behind one of the tortoiseshell fingernails, for opos and the like, she said.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Aghazal examined them closely and found a secret well behind one of the tortoiseshell fingernails, for opos and the like, she said.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • I copied her word, and wrote fish-pepper, snow? opos?

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • I copied her word, and wrote fish-pepper, snow? opos?

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • I copied her word, and wrote fish-pepper, snow? opos?

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

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