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Like them, its sources, where they can be traced, are Hellenistic works, such as Nicander's Heteroeumena and Ornithogonia ascribed to Boios.
The Hellenistic poet Nicander's lost Georgics may also be an important influence.

Nicander's and .
Nicander's main source for medical information was the physician Apollodorus.
In addition to the text by Dioscorides, the manuscript has appended to it the Carmen de herbis attributed to Rufus, a paraphrase of an ornithological treatise by a certain Dionysius, usually identified with Dionysius of Philadelphia, and a paraphrase of Nicander's treatise on the treatment of snake bites.

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This seems to pose a serious problem for the empirical account, though Hume brushes it aside as an exceptional case by stating that one may experience a novel idea that itself is derived from combinations of previous impressions.
In his account, ancient Athens seems to represent the " perfect society " and Atlantis its opponent, representing the very antithesis of the " perfect " traits described in the Republic.
These legends seem to be a mythical account of the colonization of Aegina, which seems to have been originally inhabited by Pelasgians, and afterwards received colonists from Phthiotis, the seat of the Myrmidons, and from Phlius on the Asopus.
The gold aureus seems to have been a " currency of account ," a denomination not commonly seen in daily transactions due to its high value.
His account may be true, but it seems to modern historians exaggerated and hyperbolic, and the impact of the law is recorded in no other ancient source.
This is possible, but seems unlikely, especially as Charibert seems to have had a preference for younger women, again, according to Gregory ’ s account.
In Juvenal's account, he seems to have relished the scandalous self-display, applause and the disgrace he inflicted on his more sturdy opponent by repeatedly skipping away from the confrontation.
Marcellus of Sida, who wrote under the Antonines, gives an account of a disease which befell people in February ; but a pathological state seems to be meant.
Heidegger himself, who is supposed to have broken with Husserl, bases his hermeneutics on an account of time that not only parallels Husserl's account in many ways but seems to have been arrived at through the same phenomenological method as was used by Husserl ....
It seems to have received a colony in the time of Augustus, whence we find mention in inscriptions of the Ordo et Populus splendidissimae Coloniae Augustae Himeraeorum Thermitanorum: and there can be very little doubt that the Thermae colonia of Pliny in reality refers to this town, though he evidently understood it to be Thermae Selinuntiae ( modern Sciacca ), as he places it on the south coast between Agrigentum ( modern Agrigento ) and Selinus There are little subsequent account of Thermae ; but, as its name is found in Ptolemy and the Itineraries, it appears to have continued in existence throughout the period of the Roman Empire, and probably never ceased to be inhabited, as the modern town of Termini Imerese retains the ancient site as well as name.
There does not seem to be a single account that is represented in all of the sources: rather, it seems that the accounts represent a collection of rumors accusing different political figures in attempts to tarnish their names.
The Dream's account also seems to accord better with details in the Triads, so it perhaps reflects an earlier tradition.
While this precise terminology —" by faith alone "— does not appear in English Bible translations other than in where it has been claimed that the author seems to reject the notion that a person is justified by God solely on account of faith, other Catholic authorities also used " alone " in their translation of Romans 3: 28 or exegesis of salvation by faith passages, and it is claimed to summarize the teaching of the New Testament, and especially the Pauline epistles such as, which systematically reject the proposition that justification before God is obtained due to the merit of one's obedience to the Law of Moses ( see also Biblical law in Christianity ), or Abraham's circumcision and works.
As a Roman colony Beneventum seems to have quickly become a flourishing place ; and in the Second Punic War was repeatedly occupied by Roman generals as a post of importance, on account of its proximity to Campania, and its strength as a fortress.
However, this seems to be a confusion with his account in his autobiography of his older brother Fred's proposal in Dublin in 1913 to the " ravishingly beautiful ... dark hair " Geraldine Fitzgerald who wanted to go on the stage.
Suda's account seems to be corroborated by a papyrus fragment ( P. Oxy. 1790 ), usually ascribed to Ibycus, glorifying a youthful Polycrates, but this was unlikely to have been the Polycrates of Samos and might instead have been his son, mentioned in a different context by Himerius as Polycrates, governor of Rhodes.
From the very patchy evidence, it seems that " Eumelos "' account of the Titanomachy differed from the surviving account of Hesiod's Theogony at salient points.
The 2nd century writer Lucian gave an account of the Greek Deucalion in De Dea Syria that seems to refer more to the Near Eastern flood legends: in his version, Deucalion ( whom he also calls Sisythus ) took his children, their wives, and pairs of animals with him on the ark, and later built a great temple in Manbij ( northern Syria ), on the site of the chasm that received all the waters ; he further describes how pilgrims brought vessels of sea water to this place twice a year, from as far as Arabia and Mesopotamia, to commemorate this event.
" Acting on account of ignorance seems different from acting while being ignorant ".
It seems generally agreed that Pliny's account of the matter is correct in most of the particulars ; and there have been various dissertations on the way in which a statue of Venus could have been changed into one of Nemesis.
The account of Dionysius seems to be nothing but a rationalistic interpretation of the genuine legend.

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Taking into account Thompson's capacity for self-dramatization and the possibility of a wish to identify his own life with the misfortunes of other poets who had known unhappy loves, there can be no doubt about his genuine emotion for Katie King.
Taking account of the fact that such a move on our part would be unpopular in world opinion, he argued that the responsibility of the United States is `` to do, confidently and firmly, not what is popular, but what is right ''.
the pervasive influence of ideology on our political judgments needs to be recognized and taken into due account ; ;
You may stay as long as you wish, of course, but if arranging for the care of the girls must take time into account, I think a day or two should be enough to finish our business in ''.
The maximum amount of payments which may be made pursuant to this Act on account of sales of newly mined ores or concentrates produced therefrom made during the calendar year 1962 shall not exceed $4,500,000 ; ;
the maximum amount of such payments which may be made on account of such sales made during the calendar year 1963 shall not exceed $4,500,000 ; ;
the maximum amount of such payments which may be made on account of such sales made during the calendar year 1964 shall not exceed $4,000,000 ; ;
and the maximum amount of such payments which may be made on account of such sales made during the calendar year 1965 shall not exceed $3,500,000.
Whoever, in the United States or elsewhere, pays or offers to pay, or promises to pay, or receives on account of services rendered or to be rendered in connection with any such claim, compensation which, when added to any amount previously paid on account of such services, will exceed the amount of fees so determined by the Commission, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than twelve months, or both, and if any such payment shall have been made or granted, the Commission shall take such action as may be necessary to recover the same, and, in addition thereto, any such person shall forfeit all rights under this Title.
The deposit of rupees to the account of the Government of the United States of America in payment for the commodities and for ocean transportation costs financed by the Government of the United States of America ( except excess costs resulting from the requirement that United States flag vessels be used ) shall be made at the rate of exchange for United States dollars generally applicable to import transactions ( excluding imports granted a preferential rate ) in effect on the dates of dollar disbursement by United States banks, or by the Government of the United States of America, as provided in the purchase authorizations.
Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.
Essentially, the question presented for decision in the present Daytime Skywave proceeding is whether our decision ( in 1938-1939 ) to assign stations on the basis of daytime conditions from sunrise to sunset, is sound as a basis for AM allocations, or whether, in the light of later developments and new understanding, skywave transmission is of such significance during the hours immediately before sunset and after sunrise that this condition should be taken into account, and some stations required to afford protection to other stations during these hours.
The matter of sympathy of the academic professors for art objectives also must be taken into account.
There must be a restriction in the deed to provide that the customer may not be charged more than the current market price for the oil, an obvious precaution, since the account is permanently wedded, just like with gas or electricity.
To achieve this goal of balanced development, communications between the central government and the local communities must be such that the needs and aspirations of the people themselves are effectively taken into account.

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Scholars translated it for him, and he testified that their account fully agreed with Plato's account of Atlantis " or J. V. Luce's suggestion that Crantor sent " a special enquiry to Egypt " and that he may simply be referring to Plato's own claims.
From " The Shadow of The Dam ", a first-hand account written by David Howarth in the 1960s, referring to the situation in Northern Rhodesia :- " Everything that a government can do on a meagre budget is being done.
Establishing accounts depends on the size of companies, and referring to three criteria: total of the balance sheet ( total of assets without losses of the accounting year ), the net amount of the turnover ( net, such as it appears on the profit and loss account ) and the average number of the workforce.
The author of the Catholic Encyclopedia article goes on to enumerate the accounts of each of these three persons ( the unnamed " sinner ", Mary Magdalene, and Mary of Bethany ) in the Gospel of Luke and concludes that based on these accounts “ there is no suggestion of an identification of the three persons, and if we had only Luke to guide us we should certainly have no grounds for so identifying them the same person .” He then explains first the Catholic position equating Mary of Bethany with the sinful woman of Luke by referring to, where Mary is identified as the woman who anointed Jesus, and noting that this reference is given before John ’ s account of the anointing in Bethany:
In Smith's 1832 history, he said he was visited by " an angel of the Lord ", who mentioned the Book of Mormon prophet " Moroni " as the last engraver of the golden plates ; however, Smith's account did not say whether or not the angel was referring to himself as Moroni.
In his 1848 account of absolute temperature, Thomson wrote that " the conversion of heat ( or caloric ) into mechanical effect is probably impossible, certainly undiscovered " – but a footnote signalled his first doubts about the caloric theory, referring to Joule's " very remarkable discoveries ".
However, Papias's millennialism ( according to Anastasius of Sinai, along with Clement of Alexandria and Ammonius he understood the Six Days ( Hexaemeron ) and the account of Paradise as referring mystically to Christ and His Church ) was nearer in spirit to the actual Christianity of the sub-apostolic age, especially in western Anatolia ( e. g., Montanism ), than Eusebius realized.
Some of his individual songs ( he wrote more than 60 ) were occasionally included in vocal recitals ; referring to " the strange songs of Fritz Delius ", The Times critic expressed regret " that the powers the composer undoubtedly possesses should not be turned to better account or undergo proper development at the hands of some musician competent to train them ".
Hutcheson attempts to account for our assurance of the reality of an external world by referring it to a natural instinct ( Syn.
The most popular account holds that it was originally a derogatory reference in the New York Herald referring to the sound made by many pianos all playing different tunes being exactly like the banging of many tin pans in an alleyway.
Aepyornis maximus is commonly known as the ' elephant bird ', a term that apparently originated from Marco Polo's account of the rukh in 1298, although he was apparently referring to an eagle-like bird strong enough to " seize an elephant with its talons ".
Buckland was a proponent of the Gap Theory that interpreted the biblical account of Genesis as referring to two separate episodes of creation separated by a lengthy period ; it emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as a way to reconcile the scriptural account with discoveries in geology that suggested the earth was very old.
Boycott disputes the suggestion that the run-out was deliberate in his autobiography, referring to Botham's account as " a story that gets bigger and more fanciful with every telling ".
The Kuzari by Rabbi Yehuda Halevi ( c. 1075-1141 ), understood these references in Talmud as referring to Jesus of Nazareth and based on them believed that Jesus of Nazareth lived 130 years prior to the date that Christians believe he lived, contradicting the Gospels ' account regarding the chronology of Jesus.
Halder told Goerdeler that " The military situation of Germany, particulary on account of the pact of non-aggression with Russia is such that a breach of my oath to the Führer could not possibly be justified " was referring to the Hitler oath here, that only if Germany was faced with total defeat would he consider breaking his oath, and that Goerdeler was a fool to believe that World War II could be ended with a compromise peace.
On November 24, 2010, BBC Mundo confirmed that Alicia Machado had to close her Twitter account after writing a tweet that called for " peace between the Chinas ", referring to North and South Korea.
Most scholars believe that Luke made an error in referring to the census but other scholars have attempted to reconcile its account with Matthew, ranging from a grammatical approach to the translation of the Greek word prote used in Luke to be read as " registration before Quirinius was governor of Syria " to archeological arguments and references to Tertullian that indicate that a " two step census " was performed, involving an early registration, given that Luke 2: 2 refers to the " first enrolment ".
The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, an early 19th-century collection of Welsh histories, repeats Geoffrey's account, referring to him as ' Gwrthevyr ' ( though Vortiporius ' proper Modern Welsh spelling is Gwrdebyr ; here the name has been confused with that of Vortimer, the son of Vortigern ).
It is these ratings which together account for the common practice of referring to mechanics as " A & P's.
In 1344 Clement VI, referring to this matter in a Brief, uses only the words propter miraculum aliquod (" on account of some miracle ") ( Pennazzi, 367 ); Gregory XI, in a Brief of 25 June 1337, gives a short account of the miracle ; and abundant reference to it is found later ( 1435 ), in the sermons of the Dominican preacher Leonardo Mattei of Udine (" In festo Corp. Christi ", xiv, ed.
The Otherworld ( orbis alius, so named after Lucan's account of the druidical doctrine of metempsychosis, Pharsalia, 1, 457 ) is a concept in Celtic mythology, referring to a realm of the dead, the home of the deities or spirits.

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