" In fact one modern scholar has observed in Bacchylides a general tendency towards imitation, sometimes approaching the level of quotation: in this case, the eagle simile in Ode 5 may be thought to imitate a passage in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter ( 375 – 83 ), and the countless leaves fluttering in the wind on " the gleaming headlands of Ida ", mentioned later in the ode, recall a passage in Iliad ( 6. 146 – 9 ).

Teichoscopy or teichoscopia, meaning " viewing from the walls ," is a famous passage in the Iliad that takes place in Book 3, lines 121-244.

Neither Homer nor Virgil gives the reader any foreshadowing of Diomedes's death except for a passage in the Iliad in which Dione, Aphrodite's mother, comforts the goddess of love ( after she has been injured by Diomedes ), telling her daughter that " the man who fights the gods does not live long " and will not be welcomed home from war by his children on his lap ( 5. 407-409 ).

About this time he sent to the Académie française a translation of the passage from Homer proposed for their prize, and, though he did not win, he received so much encouragement from his friends that he contemplated translating the whole of the Iliad.

Othryoneus ( Ὀθρυονεύς ) was in Greek mythology a suitor of Princess Cassandra of Troy during the Trojan War, mentioned in one passage in Homer's Iliad.

In the Iliad, he is killed during the Battle of the Ships by Idomeneus, in a passage in which he is cited as gleefully mocking him while Othryoneus is dying.

Walter Burkert traces the model drawn from Atrahasis to a corresponding passage, the division by lots of the air, underworld and sea among Zeus, Hades and Poseidon in the Iliad, in which “ a resetting through which the foreign framework still shows ”.

He had a considerable reputation as a writer of English hexameters and as a judge of Homeric translation: his translation of a brief passage from the Iliad was described by Matthew Arnold, in On Translating Homer, as " the most successful attempt hitherto made at rendering Homer into English ".

He is fancifully misquoted by Trygaeus to prove that oracle mongers are not entitled to free meals ( lines 1090-93 ) and there is an accurate quote from a passage in the Iliad arguing in favour of peace ( 1097-8 ).

Another of Webbe's glees is Discord !, whose first movement is based on a passage from Iliad and whose second is based on a verse which, it is thought, he composed himself.

The mythological chronologization of the Hesiodean passage indicates to time before the Trojan War and Iliad, since then the Magnetes dwell in Magnesia, Thessaly.

* December 24 – Apollo 8 broadcasts to the Earth, relaying a report that there is a Santa Claus and reading a passage from the Book of Genesis.

The space race in the 1950s and 1960s led to the renaming of the museum to the National Air and Space Museum, and finally congressional passage of appropriations for the construction of the new exhibition hall, which opened July 1, 1976 at the height of the United States Bicentennial festivities under the leadership of Director Michael Collins, who had flown to the Moon on Apollo 11.

Apollo reassures him and, in a passage of swift stichomythic banter, proposes a postponement of Alcestis ' death, which is sarcastically rebuffed.

During the L3 complex's journey to the Moon, there was no need to undock and redock the orbital and landing craft as in Apollo, because the cosmonaut would transfer from the LOK to LK by a " spacewalk ", while in Apollo this operation was executed by an internal passage.

Scobie tries to secure a loan from the bank to pay the two hundred pound fee for Louise ’ s passage, but is turned down.

Stauffer cites the passage where Holly is meditating as he tries to fall asleep as emblematic of " the charges against " Haggard's writing.

More specifically, Dependent Rational Animals tries to make a holistic case on the basis of our best current knowledge ( as opposed to an ahistorical, foundational claim ) that " human vulnerability and disability " are the " central features of human life " and that Thomistic " virtues of dependency " are needed for individual human beings to flourish in their passage from stages of infancy to adulthood and old age.

As Karl Ziktor tries to overcome the barriers of the true reality to allow his armies easy passage from virtual world, the responsibility falls to Ryan, Kaitlin, and J. B. of defending the planet on both sides of the dimensional barrier.

Traveler tries to talk Horacio out of doing what he, for his part, insists he doesn't intend to do, though at the conclusion of this part of the book, he suddenly muses that maybe he does mean to do such a thing after all, that maybe it is for the best, and the end of the passage is wholly open to this interpretation.

In the modern century, a passage of writing or composition employing an " ars poetica " style is one that tries to capture the essence, the intrinsic value, of what it is expressing through.

At the town of Mopti Palin tries to get ferry passage up the Niger River, but the low water level makes this impossible.

* Against The Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Project Gutenberg ebook in English ( omits a chapter in which Des Esseintes tries to start a young man on a life of crime and a passage describing implied homosexuality )

The extent to which the public-limit price is raised by a given increase in the basic wage rate is itself a function of three things: the passage of time, the level of GNP, and the size of the wage increase.

' The passage is miserably corrupt: but it may not be accidental that the first three syllables make Abraxas.

Although this passage is only three words in the original Hebrew, it is quoted three times in the New Testament.

A passage in Muhtasar kitab al-buldan illustrates the division of Islamic society into strata: " First are the rulers, whom their deserts has placed in the foremost rank ; second are the viziers, distinguished by wisdom and understanding ; third are the wealthy upper classes, lifted by their possessions ; fourth are the middle classes who are attached to the upper three by culture ( ta ' addub ); the remainder are the lowest classes that are filthy refuse, a torrent of scum, none of whom thinks of anything but food and sleep.

After the passage of the 19th Amendment gave women the vote in 1920, Eastman and three others wrote the Equal Rights Amendment, first introduced in 1923.

The main three are Type I, removal of the clitoral hood, almost invariably accompanied by removal of the clitoris itself ( clitoridectomy ); Type II, removal of the clitoris and inner labia ; and Type III ( infibulation ), removal of all or part of the inner and outer labia, and usually the clitoris, and the fusion of the wound, leaving a small hole for the passage of urine and menstrual blood — the fused wound is opened for intercourse and childbirth.

At the top of the Grand Gallery there is a step giving onto a horizontal passage approximately long, in which can be detected four slots, three of which were probably intended to hold granite portcullises.

Of the three passages found in Josephus ' Antiquities, this passage, if authentic, would offer the most direct support for the crucifixion of Jesus.

Craig Blomberg states that if the three elements " lawful to call him a man ", " he was the Christ " and the reference to the resurrection are removed from the Testimonium the rest of the passage flows smoothly within the context, fits the style of Josephus and is likely to be authentic.

Blomberg adds that after the removal of these three elements ( which are likely interpolations ) from the Greek versions the remaining passage fits well with the Arabic version and supports the authenticity of the reference to the execution of Jesus by Pilate.

The context of this remark, however, suggests only that Aristotle advised that it could be rhetorically advantageous to appeal to such a law, especially when the " particular " law of ones ' own city was adverse to the case being made, not that there actually was such a law ; Aristotle, moreover, considered two of the three candidates for a universally valid, natural law suggested in this passage to be wrong.

These were two or three part compositions in which several different texts, sometimes in different vernacular languages, were sung simultaneously over a Latin cantus firmus that once again was usually adapted from a passage of Gregorian chant.

The context of this remark, however, suggests only that Aristotle advised that it could be rhetorically advantageous to appeal to such a law, especially when the " particular " law of one's own city was averse to the case being made, not that there actually was such a law ; Aristotle, moreover, considered two of the three candidates for a universally valid, natural law provided in this passage to be wrong.

Writing in 409, Jerome remarked, " A great many years ago when I was helping Damasus, bishop of Rome with his ecclesiastical correspondence, and writing his answers to the questions referred to him by the councils of the east and west ..." If " east and west " do not betray the passage as an interpolation, Jerome spent three years ( 382 – 385 ) in Rome in close intercourse with Pope Damasus and the leading Christians.

Furthermore, the act provided that any bill rejected by the Lords would nevertheless become law if passed by the Commons in three successive sessions provided that two years had elapsed since its original passage.

In relativistic contexts, time cannot be separated from the three dimensions of space, because the observed rate at which time passes for an object depends on the object's velocity relative to the observer and also on the strength of gravitational fields, which can slow the passage of time.

This follows the 1967 passage of a plebiscite act that provided for a vote on the status of Puerto Rico with three status options: continued commonwealth, statehood, and independence.

Over three days of debate, Congress made changes and deleted nearly a fourth of the text, most notably a passage critical of the slave trade.

The passage is also of historical value in establishing three separate facts about Rome around AD 60: ( i ) that there were a sizable number of Christians in Rome at the time, ( ii ) that it was possible to distinguish between Christians and Jews in Rome, and ( iii ) that at the time pagans made a connection between Christianity in Rome and its origin in Judea.

The classical unities, Aristotelian unities or three unities are rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics.

In the first three editions of the book Hutcheson followed this passage with various mathematical algorithms “ to compute the Morality of any Actions ”.

While at University, in one Greek prose examination lasting three hours, he was asked to translate a passage into Greek.

Byrd sets it in three sections, each beginning with a semichoir passage in archaic style.

In August 1995, after passage of the law, the city held a public referendum asking registered voters living in three Prince George's County neighborhoods north of New Hampshire Avenue whether they wanted to be annexed to the city of Takoma Park.