Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos, the fourth emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century AD, referred to Asia Minor as East thema, " ανατολικόν θέμα " ( from the Greek words anatoli: east, thema: administrative division ), placing this region to the East of Byzantium, while Europe was lying to the West.

Many of these trivial errors occurred in the Byzantine period, following a change in script from uncial to minuscule, and many were ' homophonic ' errors, when scribes accidentally substituted homophones for words in the textequivalent in English to substituting ' right ' for ' write ', except that there were more opportunities for Byzantine scribes to make these errors because the Greek letters η, ι, οι and ει were pronounced similarly in the Byzantine period.

These words were ultimately derived from the Late Latin word solidus, referring to an Ancient Roman coin used in the Byzantine Empire.

" Princeps " is the root and Latin rendering of modern words as the English title and generic term prince ( see that article, also for various equivalents in other languages ), as the Byzantine version of Roman law was the basis for the legal terminology developed in feudal ( and later absolutist ) Europe.

The corona græca with its pointed and arched plaques is identical to the form of the crowns of the Byzantine empresses – in other words it was a woman ’ s crown.

* In the 12th to 13th centuries, Byzantine writers use the words Arbanon () for a principality in the region of Kruja.

Iorga considers the army to have been composed of both auxiliary ( τολδον ) Romanised Thracians — speaking πιχωρί τε γλώττ ( the “ language of the country ” /” language of their parents / of the natives ”) — and of Byzantines ( a mélange of ethnicities using Byzantine words of Latin origin as official command terms, as attested in the Strategikon ).

It was used by non-Chalcedonians to refer to those who backed the council and the Byzantine Emperor ( malko and its cognates are Semitic words for " king ").

In the 12th to 13th centuries, Byzantine writers use the words Arbanon () for a principality in the region of Kruja.

The surviving part of the text would thus speak of an annual gold tribute that Kormesiy received from the Byzantine Emperor: in other words, the peace treaty would have been re-established during his rule.

Soon after ( circa 529 ) he was raised by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I ( r. 527 – 565 ), in the words of the historian Procopius, " to the dignity of king ", becoming the overall commander of all the Empire's Arab allies ( foederati ) in the East with the title of patrikios (, " patrician and phylarch of the Saracens ").

These conquests removed the threat of the once mighty Muslim Syrian fleets, effectively re-establishing Byzantine dominance in the Eastern Mediterranean, so that Nikephoros Phokas could boast to Liutprand of Cremona with the words " I alone command the sea ".

There are a number of Byzantine and Modern Greek words, several dozens of which are also found in Daco-Romanian ( Romanian language ) and Aromanian and about 80 words that were borrowed via Macedonian and Bulgarian languages and other languages of the Balkans.

* Basso Mustakidou, " The words Hellene, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Turk ", Tybigge, 1920

The Ottoman Empire having been the successor of the Byzantine Empire, Turkish has words borrowed from Greek.

In the words of historian Henry Steele Commager, " In a Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat.

The authors ' caveats and repeated efforts at alternative definition have been echoed in subsequent scholarship: in the more than five decades since, there have been innumerable further attempts at definition, yet in the words of cinema historian Mark Bould, film noir remains an " elusive phenomenon ... always just out of reach ".

It was not, in the words of naval historian John Pryor, a " ship-killer " comparable to the naval ram, which by then had fallen out of use.

For a time, the Spanish Empire dominated the oceans with its experienced navy and ruled the European battlefield with its fearsome and well trained infantry, the famous, in the words of the prominent French historian Pierre Vilar, " enacting the most extraordinary epic in human history ".

In the words of one historian: " The savage hordes of popular lore seldom materialized on African battlefields.

In the words of one modern historian, " On the fate of Orléans hung that of the entire kingdom.

From the 1040s onwards, however, successive popes had put forward a reforming message that emphasised the importance of the church being " governed more coherently and more hierarchically from the centre " and established " its own sphere of authority and jurisdiction, separate from and independent of that of the lay ruler ", in the words of historian Richard Huscroft.

For that purpose, they believed, the music needed to stay " accessible and unpretentious ", in the words of music historian Simon Reynolds.

Espínola was " perhaps the most hated Paraguayan of his era ", in the words of historian John Hoyt Williams.

From the 1040s onwards, however, successive popes had put forward a reforming message that emphasised the importance of the church being " governed more coherently and more hierarchically from the centre " and established " its own sphere of authority and jurisdiction, separate from and independent of that of the lay ruler ", in the words of historian Richard Huscroft.

According to the historian Robin Blackburn, the words " the hireling and slave " allude to the fact that the British attackers had many ex-slaves in their ranks, who had been promised liberty and demanded to be placed in the battle line " where they might expect to meet their former masters ".

# A Finnish historian, Matti Klinge, has speculated that the words " Wends " or " Vandals " used in Scandinavian sources occasionally meant all peoples of the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea from Pomerania to Finland, including some Finnic peoples.

In the words of historian R. J. Knecht, " she underestimated the strength of religious conviction, imagining that all would be well if only she could get the party leaders to agree ".

While the art of the older masters was based in the physical world of everyday experience, Bosch confronts his viewer with, in the words of the art historian Walter Gibson, " a world of dreams nightmares in which forms seem to flicker and change before our eyes.

In the words of a recent historian: " Offa was driven by a lust for power, not a vision of English unity ; and what he left was a reputation, not a legacy.

After 785, in the words of one historian, " Offa was the rival, not the overlord, of Kentish kings ".

In the words of historian Ellen Fitzpatrick, Debo's book " advanced a crushing analysis of the corruption, moral depravity, and criminal activity that underlay white administration and execution of the allotment policy.

Molotov's and Voroshilov's role in the making of the new Soviet anthem was, in the words of historian Simon Sebag-Montefiore, acting as music judges for Stalin.

This group had decided, in the words of historian John Mack Faragher, " to send a message of their opposition to settlement ….

In the words of historian G. R. Elton, " from that moment his autocratic system was complete ".

The Háttatal ( c. 20, 000 words ) is the last section of the Prose Edda composed by the Icelandic poet, politician, and historian Snorri Sturluson.

The hubristic Marsyas in surviving literary sources eclipses the figure of the wise Marsyas suggested in a few words by the Hellenistic historian Diodorus Siculus, who refers to Marsyas as admired for his intelligence ( sunesis ) and self-control ( sophrosune ), not qualities found by Greeks in ordinary satyrs.

Known for his military successes and sense of duty, Stilicho was, in the words of the great historian Edward Gibbon, “ the last of the Roman generals .”

In the words of historian Max Rein in 1988, " Kristallnacht came ... and everything was changed.

Despite opposing the collaborating regime, the French Résistance generally sympathised with its antifeminism and did not encourage the participation of women in war and politics, following, in the words of the historian, Henri Noguères, " a notion of inequality between the sexes as old as our civilisation and as firmly implanted in the Résistance as it was elsewhere in France.

Speakers at a Tipoff Club dinner dealt lavish praise to a group of St. Louis University players who, in the words of Coach John Benington, `` had more confidence in themselves than I did ''.

but, in Senator Gore's words, it was `` not a very encouraging '' situation that would confront John F. Kennedy on Inauguration Day.

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

This position was stated by John Henry Newman in the following words:

The latter etymology was first suggested by John Mitchell Kemble who alluded that " of six manuscripts in which this passage occurs, one only reads Bretwalda: of the remaining five, four have Bryten-walda or-wealda, and one Breten-anweald, which is precisely synonymous with Brytenwealda "; that Æthelstan was called brytenwealda ealles ðyses ealondes, which Kemble translates as " ruler of all these islands "; and that bryten-is a common prefix to words meaning ' wide or general dispersion ' and that the similarity to the word bretwealh (' Briton ') is " merely accidental ".

" Even John Goldingay, a proponent of the late date, concedes, " the Greek words hardly necessitate a very late date.

Within philosophy familiar names include Daniel Dennett who writes from a computational systems perspective, John Searle known for his controversial Chinese room, Jerry Fodor who advocates functionalism, and Douglas Hofstadter, famous for writing Gödel, Escher, Bach, which questions the nature of words and thought.

In Evangelium Vitae, Pope John Paul II suggested that capital punishment should be avoided unless it is the only way to defend society from the offender in question, opining that punishment " ought not go to the extreme of executing the offender except in cases of absolute necessity: in other words, when it would not be possible otherwise to defend society.

It carried the words, " No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America ; peace and retirement to the President ; Love Live the Vice President ," referring to then-President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson.

In the words of the chronicler John Stow:

This passage corresponds closely with the canonical John 1: 19-30, except that in that passage, the words are spoken by John the Baptist ( in the Qur ' an ; Yahya ibn Zakariya ) and refer to Jesus.

In Ancient Greek those last three words would be rendered tōi podi ( τῷ ποδί ), with the noun pous ( πούς, foot ) changing to podi to reflect the fact that John is using his foot as an instrument ( any adjective modifying " foot " would also change case to match ).

In 1993 the newly-appointed Secretary of State for Wales John Redwood was embarrassingly videotaped opening and closing his mouth during a communal singing of the national anthem, clearly ignorant of the words but unable to mime convincingly ; the pictures were frequently cited as evidence of his unsuitability for the post.

According to John Major's autobiography, the first thing Redwood's successor William Hague said, on being appointed, was that he had better find someone to teach him the words.

" John Lennon borrows these same words as lyrics for The Beatles song, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

But now We join Our voice to that of Our predecessor John XXIII of venerable memory, and We make Our own his words: " No statement of the problem and no solution to it is acceptable which does violence to man's essential dignity ; those who propose such solutions base them on an utterly materialistic conception of man himself and his life.

Louis Feldman, who believes the Josephus passage on John is authentic, states that Christian interpolators would have been very unlikely to have devoted almost twice as much space to John ( 163 words ) as to Jesus ( 89 words ).

Thomas Netter highly esteemed John Kynyngham in that he " so bravely offered himself to the biting speech of the heretic and to words that stung as being without the religion of Christ ".

Perhaps the most natural explanation is to be found in the words of Christ to John and James " My chalice indeed you shall drink " ().

On August 1, 1981, at 12: 01 a. m., MTV launched with the words " Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll ," spoken by John Lack, and played over footage of the first Space Shuttle launch countdown of Columbia, which took place earlier that year, and of the launch of Apollo 11.