selas

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Any thief knows to take gold or jewels, but none here recognizes the worth of selas amat.

THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010
The two words selas (brightness) and phos (light) have much the same meaning?

The CRATYLUS Plato 1975
Johnson satirized man's desire for wings in his “Disser - tation on the Art of Flying,” the sixth chapter of Ras - selas (1759).

COSMIC VOYAGES MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968
When they opened his brain, they found in it a gnat as big as a swallow and weighing two selas.

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various
Aruba: "I myself was among the Roman magnates when an inquest was held upon the body of Titus, and on opening his brain they found therein a gnat as big as a swallow, weighing two selas."

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various
SOCRATES: The two words selas (brightness) and phos (light) have much the same meaning?

Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
Selene is an anticipation of Anaxagoras, being a contraction of selaenoneoaeia, the light (selas) which is ever old and new, and which, as Anaxagoras says, is borrowed from the sun; the name was harmonized into selanaia, a form which is still in use.

Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855