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... turn to any passage in the speeches addressed by Demosthenes to the Athenian assembly— Olynth . B. 9 , for instance - we shall find that the syn- tactical sequence of the words is in many sentences but slightly altered ; indeed , a ...
... turn to any passage in the speeches addressed by Demosthenes to the Athenian assembly— Olynth . B. 9 , for instance - we shall find that the syn- tactical sequence of the words is in many sentences but slightly altered ; indeed , a ...
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... turn your eyes towards our new state . ' Sophista , 229 , E , “ Orav aỶTOîs ἐξαμαρτάνωσί τι · ' Whenever their children do anything to displease them : cf. XEN . Cyr . i . 32 , és kaλós μoi å táπ- πος ' How handsome my grandfather looks ...
... turn your eyes towards our new state . ' Sophista , 229 , E , “ Orav aỶTOîs ἐξαμαρτάνωσί τι · ' Whenever their children do anything to displease them : cf. XEN . Cyr . i . 32 , és kaλós μoi å táπ- πος ' How handsome my grandfather looks ...
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... A proverbial expression for great contempt . Theæt . p . 209 , B. Cic . pro Flacco , 27 , ' Si quis despicatui ducitur , Mysorum ultimus esse dicitur . ' 33. Ὑπέρου περιτροπὴ οι περιστροφὴ , literally , the turning 54 GREEK PROVERBS .
... A proverbial expression for great contempt . Theæt . p . 209 , B. Cic . pro Flacco , 27 , ' Si quis despicatui ducitur , Mysorum ultimus esse dicitur . ' 33. Ὑπέρου περιτροπὴ οι περιστροφὴ , literally , the turning 54 GREEK PROVERBS .
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Henry Musgrave Wilkins. 33. Ὑπέρου περιτροπὴ οι περιστροφὴ , literally , the turning of the pestle ; proverb . of one who is always going round and round in the same circle . 34. Euthyd . 292 , Ε . Ατεχνῶς τὸ λεγόμενον ὁ Διὸς Κόρινθος ...
Henry Musgrave Wilkins. 33. Ὑπέρου περιτροπὴ οι περιστροφὴ , literally , the turning of the pestle ; proverb . of one who is always going round and round in the same circle . 34. Euthyd . 292 , Ε . Ατεχνῶς τὸ λεγόμενον ὁ Διὸς Κόρινθος ...
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... turn of a shell . ' Proverbial of a sudden and unexpected vicissitude . It is alluded to in Rep . 521 , C ; where ... turning of a shell ; ' or , as we should say , ' the fall of a die ' for the metaphor is drawn from a game of chance ...
... turn of a shell . ' Proverbial of a sudden and unexpected vicissitude . It is alluded to in Rep . 521 , C ; where ... turning of a shell ; ' or , as we should say , ' the fall of a die ' for the metaphor is drawn from a game of chance ...
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