From a passing allusion in this oration, it appears that Cersobleptes had been negotiating with king Philip II of Macedonia for a combined attack on the Chersonese, which however came to nothing in consequence of the refusal of Amadocus to allow Philip a passage through his territory.

This mythological account of his lover recalls Hesiod's account of Pandora who was decked out by the same goddesses ( the Graces, the Seasons and Persuasion ) so as to be a bane to mankind — an allusion consistent with Ibycus's view of love as unavoidable turmoil.

William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Michael Ferber, Mitchel Goodman and Marcus Raskin, an account of the five men's 1970 trial on charges of conspiracy to violate the draft laws, followed by a harsh critique of the American prison system entitled Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business ( 1973 ), an allusion to the phrase " cruel and unusual punishment ".

', this conflicts with the biblical account which says Abraham's response was this: ' My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering ', which according to William Whiston was an allusion to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

A word used to denote a very old-fashioned individual ( bekkeselene !, line 398 ) might have been an allusion by Aristophanes to Herodotus ' account of an experiment by the Egyptian Pharaoh to determine humanity's original language, which Pharaoh concluded to be Phrygian on the grounds that the Phrygian word for bread ( bekkos ) was the first word spoken by some infants who had never been taught to speak.

The metaphor with which the poem ends is most likely an allusion to a passage in Thucydides ' account of the Peloponnesian War.

Moreover, in a parchment Breviary of the order dated 1356 the account of foundation contains no allusion to such a lineage.

Claudian seems to have been making a classicizing allusion to Silius Italicus, whose account of the Battle of Cannae mentioned a similar wind blowing spears and weapons back.

His teachings rarely rely on reasoned argument and ethical ideals and methods are conveyed more indirectly, through allusion, innuendo, and even tautology.

The figures ’ robes display a Byzantine conservatism, with their modeled three-dimensionality and allusion to a Classical style, yet the iconic hand gestures are reminiscent of a Romanesque energy and theatricality.

It is generally agreed that " Unlike the Vedas, which have to be preserved letter-perfect, the epic was a popular work whose reciters would inevitably conform to changes in language and style ," so the earliest surviving components of this dynamic text are believed to be no older than the earliest external references we have to the epic, which may include an allusion in Panini's fourth century BCE grammar ( Ashtādhyāyī 4: 2: 56 ).

Captain Ramage reminds his adversary " You are supposed to know that it is dangerous to change horses in midstream " ( p. 259 ), with another allusion to the same proverb three pages later.

Also, the two mountains which form the entrance to Kukuana Land ( where the mines are located in the novel ) are referred to as ' Sheba's Breasts ' which could well be an allusion to the Queen of Sheba, with whom King Solomon had a relationship ; or alternatively Solomon's mother, who was named Bathsheba.

Most of these are slight differences in the wording of the prayers ; for instance, Oriental Sephardic and some Hasidic prayer books state " חננו מאתך חכמה בינה ודעת ", " Graciously bestow upon us from You wisdom ( ḥochmah ), understanding ( binah ) and knowledge ( daat )", in allusion to the Kabbalistic sefirot of those names, while the Nusach Ashkenaz, as well as Western Sephardic and other Hasidic versions retain the older wording " חננו מאתך דעה בינה והשכל ", " Graciously bestow upon us from You knowledge, understanding, and reason ".

Artaud claimed that the " perpetual allusion to the materials and the principle of the theater found in almost all alchemical books should be understood as the expression of an identity [...] existing between the world in which the characters, images, and in a general way all that constitutes the virtual reality of the theater develops, and the purely fictitious and illusory world in which the symbols of alchemy are evolved ".

Each weapon card has a certain point value, and certain weapons are worth more points when used in certain rooms ( for example, the trowel is worth extra points when used in the wine cellar, an allusion to Poe's " The Cask of Amontillado ").

A final allusion to the rules established and followed by the physician throughout his life can be made: general canons which are still followed in hospitals today, they embody a final representation of the man that was, William Harvey.

Other symbols alluded to are the coat of arms, flag, and banner ; there is also allusion to a regional anthem, though as of 2009 none has been adopted.

The fourfold categorizations are: Peshat ( simple interpretation ), Remez ( allusion ), Derash ( interpretive ), and Sod ( secret / mystical ).

There is an allusion to her famous saying that Athens would ride the sea like a wine skin and never sink but the receptacle is misrepresented by Cleon as a pan-molgos ( 963 ). The oracle and her sanctuary are mentioned in a variety of contexts in other plays.

The allusion is to the use of hemp rope for restraining prisoners, as a symbol of power, in the same way that stocks or manacles are used in a Western BDSM context.

More interesting are the " elephant " coins: The first type shows Demetrius ( I ) with elephant-crown, a well-known symbol of India and an allusion to Ganesha.

* In the popular science fiction novel Dune, the elite Fremen soldiers are known as the " Fedaykin ", an allusion to the word " fedayeen.

There is one allusion Birth of Tragedy, 24 to Christian priests as a ' vicious kind of dwarfs ' who are ' subterranean ' ..."

The final vignette is an allusion to the Marquis de Sade's novel 120 Days of Sodom ; the intertitle reads: 120 Days of Depraved Acts, about an orgy in a castle, wherein the surviving orgiasts are ready to emerge to the light of mainstream society.

In the English-speaking world, these men are often sarcastically called The Eight Immortals as an allusion to the Taoist deities commonly known as the Eight Immortals.

Two days later they are married by Adams in a humble ceremony, and the narrator, after bringing the story to a close, and in a disparaging allusion to Richardson, assures the reader that there will be no sequel.

They sang songs saying they travelled a long way, and they are all wet and muddy, an allusion of the wet underworld of Veles from which they came as ghosts of dead.

Literary allusion is closely related to parody and pastiche, which are also " text-linking " literary devices.

The words " wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces " are an allusion to the Fall of Man in the Book of Genesis.

The pictures on the wall of Professor Lilloman's office are another allusion.

The parallel lines at the top ( with white space between them ) are said to make an allusion to the tricolor Indian flag and depict an equality sign, which symbolizes the nation's desire to reduce economic disparity.

Yet again, today it is almost certain that this legend was used as a metaphor, in allusion to the old Slavic pagan ceremony known as the " postrzyżyny ": During that ceremony hair cutting was performed to every boy at the age of seven.

Modern use of Ancient Roman Architecture is most commonly used as an allusion to Ancient Rome itself, people recall the Roman Empire as a colossal, dominant, and extremely influential nation.

This technique involved molten zirconia being contained within a thin shell of still-solid zirconia, with crystal growth from the melt: The process was named cold crucible, an allusion to the system of water cooling used.

The term coined by Radcliffe-Brown is now commonly used and familiar to broader Australian and international audiences, as it is increasingly used by government agencies, museums, art galleries, Aboriginal organisations and the media to refer to the pan-Australian Aboriginal myth specifically, and as a shorthand allusion to Australian Aboriginal mythology generally.

Others point out that here, as in Galatians 4: 4, Paul does not use the ordinary word for " born " ( γεννητός, gennetos, the word used in in relation to John the Baptist being " born of a woman "), but the word γενόμενος, genomenos, literally meaning " become ", " come to be ", a fact that some interpret as an allusion to incarnation of the pre-existent Son of God.

Changes to the text include a new, albeit silent scene just prior to the Battle of Wakefield where York embraces Rutland before heading out to fight ; an extension of the courtship between Edward and Lady Grey, and the edition of two subplots ; one concerning a mistress of Edward's who he accidentally kills in battle ( an allusion to Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's Philaster ), the other involving an attempt by Warwick to seduce Lady Grey after her husband's death at the Second Battle of St. Albans ( this is later used as a rationale for why Warwick turns against Edward ).

The judge fined him the small sum of £ 18. 60, which commentators theorized was a wry allusion to the year of the statute used to convict him.

** The various editions of Webster's New International Dictionary, used as a jocular allusion to these political organisations

The columnist himself moved to MacEdition in 2000, penning a column called the " Naked Mole Rat Report " ( an allusion to a phrase used in one of the Knife's last columns ).

It is speculation that Borges adapted the last name from Twain ; and as Twain did not have a first name for the bandit, Borges used Lazarus, many believe as an allusion to the Bible character of the same first name who was raised from the dead by Jesus, symbolizing a second life ( which, in a purely ironic way, Borges ' Lazarus Morrell provided for the slaves he freed ).

A commercial radio station for the area, Wyvern FM was set up in 1982 using this allusion, it was also used much later by the First Group who renamed their bus operations in the area First Wyvern as opposed to the more historical First Midland Red used previously.

The common name sidewinder is an allusion to its unusual form of locomotion, which is thought to give it traction on windblown desert sand, but this peculiar locomotor specialization is used on any substrate that the sidewinder can move over rapidly.

The emblem is an allusion to one that was used by the Byelorussian SSR, designed by Ivan Dubasov in 1950.

This was also an allusion to the way the James Tiptree, Jr. Award group ( also founded after a discussion at a WisCon ) named itself after the fictitious male persona used by the writer long known as " James Tiptree, Jr .".

Hence the term “ glacier fire ” is also used as an allusion to the name Kamet.

The Spanish common name barba amarilla ( yellow beard ), an allusion to the pale yellow chin color, is also used in English.

The name comes from the Greek chrysos, " gold ", and kolla, " glue ", in allusion to the name of the material used to solder gold, and was first used by Theophrastus in 315 BCE.