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  • Some non-bee pollon spreaders have disappeared as civilization spreads.

    Bees In My Easter Bonnet 2007

  • “Prom.” 210 (of Themis and Gaia), pollon onomaton morphe mia.

    Symposium 2007

  • I'll call my doctor to get Loratadine again whenever I have time to pick up a prescription, for now I'll just hope rain will drown whatever pollon that dares to leave the trees here.

    Fed up. magnio 2006

  • [Greek: Hos en sophon bouleuma tas pollon cheiras nika.]

    On Human Nature 2004

  • However the expression {ou pollon khronon} is so loose that it might well cover the required period of time.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Stein and Abicht both venture to adopt the conjecture {Pelasgon} for {pollon}, “Pelasgians especially being added to them, and also many other Barbarian nations.”

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • And this name, The One, contains really no more than the negation of plurality: under the same pressure the Pythagoreans found their indication in the symbol “Apollo” [a = not; pollon = of many] with its repudiation of the multiple.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • Rationalism (Socinus, Ritschl) seeks in vain to deny that St. Paul had this idea of vicarious expiation on the ground that the expression anti pollon (in the place of many) is foreign to him.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Biblical expression for sacrifice; the words, "for many" (anti pollon), express the idea of vicarious sacrifice, while the term,

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • + Matt., xxvi, 28: Touto gar estin to aima mou to tes [kaines] diathekes to peri pollon ekchynnomenon eis aphesin amartion.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

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