The proper form of the name is evidently Abrasax, as with the Greek writers, Hippolytus, Epiphanias, Didymus ( De Trin.

On the other hand, French lait and Spanish leche ( both meaning " milk ") are less obviously cognates of Ancient Greek gálaktos ( genitive singular of gála, " milk "), a relationship more evidently seen through the intermediate Latin lac " milk ", as well as the English word lactic and other terms borrowed from Latin.

Religion writer and editor Alexander Thomson said of the NWT: " The translation is evidently the work of skilled and clever scholars, who have sought to bring out as much of the true sense of the Greek text as the English language is capable of expressing.

The period of Greek history from 411 – 362 BC is primarily attested by the historian Xenophon, who evidently saw his work as continuation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War.

while another quote, recorded by Stobaeus, describes the heroic exploits of a Greek warrior against the cavalry of the Lydian king, Gyges, early in the 7th century — Mimnermus evidently hoped thereby to strengthen his countrymen's resolve against further Lydian encroachments.

Spanish phoneticians normally describe the difference as ( for the northern Iberian sound ) vs. ( for the more common sound ), but Ladefoged and Maddieson claim that English / s / can be pronounced apical, which is evidently not the same as the apical sibilant of Iberian Spanish and Basque, In addition, Adams asserts that many dialects of Modern Greek have a laminal sibilant with a sound quality similar to the " apico-alveolar " sibilant of northern Iberia.

One, represented in a minority of manuscripts, sometimes called the " Old Greek " version, seems to represent the Septuagint translation, evidently so unsatisfactory that the early Church opted to substitute Theodotion's version in its place, in the official copies of the LXX that have survived.

Plancius called this earlier constellation Muia ( Greek for fly ) in 1612, and it had been called Musca ( Latin for fly ) by Blaeu in 1602, although Bayer was evidently unaware of this.

The supreme power and source of being above all principalities and powers and angels ( such is evidently the reference of Epiphanius's αὐτῶν: Irenaeus substitutes " heavens ," which in this connexion comes to much the same thing ) is Abrasax, the Greek letters of whose name added together as numerals make up 365, the number of the heavens ; whence, they apparently said, the year has 365 days, and the human body 365 members.

The phrase evidently follows in the tradition of the Roman historian Suetonius, who reports that others have claimed Caesar's last words were the Greek phrase " καὶ σὺ τέκνον ;" ( transliterated as " Kai su, teknon?

The story of Arion and the dolphin, which involves the Corinthian tyrant Periander and is evidently set at the turn of the 7th century BCE, suggests that Methymna was already a prominent city with far-reaching contacts across the Greek world at this period.

Paul, as a controversial Greek speaking Hebrew, evidently met some of the criterion for Lysias to conclude he was a Jewish revolutionist.

He is said to have composed about a thousand hymns, of which only eighty have survived, evidently because in the 9th century the so-called canones, linguistically and metrically more artistic in form, replaced much of his work in the Greek Liturgy.

Ancient Greek fell into disuse in western Europe in the Middle Ages, but remained officially in use in the Byzantine world, and was reintroduced to the rest of Europe with the Fall of Constantinople and Greek migration to the areas of Italy.

In 1669 the city of Heraklion, on Crete, which at one time boasted at least 120 painters, finally fell to the Turks, and from that time Greek icon painting went into a decline, with a revival attempted in the 20th century by art reformers such as Photios Kontoglou, who emphasized a return to earlier styles.

It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC and, after his death, it became part of the Greek Seleucid Empire.

During World War II Thessaloniki was heavily bombarded by Fascist Italy ( with 232 people dead, 871 wounded and over 800 buildings damaged or destroyed in November 1940 alone ), and, the Italians having failed to succeed in their invasion of Greece, it fell to the forces of Nazi Germany on 8 April 1941 and remained under German occupation until 30 October 1944 when it was liberated by the Greek People's Liberation Army.

In the central myth in its Greek telling, Aphrodite fell in love with the beautiful youth ( possibly because she had been wounded by Eros's arrow ).

Inside the giant wooden horse were Greek soldiers, who, as night fell, disembarked from the horse and opened the city gates, thus sealing the fate of Troy.

These parts generally fell within the ethnic domain that by the 5th century BC was attributed to those speakers of ancient Greek who were identified as Ionians.

In Greek mythology, the Cretan Bull was either the bull that carried away Europa or the bull Pasiphaë fell in love with, giving birth to the Minotaur.

Despite the support of their Greek allies in undermining the hegemony of the Achaemenids, the country nevertheless fell into the hands of the conquerors, and Memphis was never again to become the nation's capital.

One of the most common relates to the story of the youth of Greek mythology named Narcissus, who became so obsessed with his own reflection as he knelt and gazed into a pool of water that he fell into the water and drowned.

Nisos, a king of Megara in Greek mythology, became a sea eagle or Osprey, to attack his daughter after she fell in love with Minos, king of Crete.

" Smith claimed his master, a Turkish nobleman, sent him as a gift to his Greek mistress in Constantinople, who fell in love with Smith.

Eventually, Egypt fell under Persian rule followed by Greek and Roman rule, while Carthage was later ruled by Romans and Vandals.

:< sup > 9 </ sup > And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the Lord, and offer it as a sin offering ; < sup > 10 </ sup > but the goat on which the lot of the sent away one fell shall be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away ( Greek eis ten apompen acc.

The word ' photonics ' is derived from the Greek word " photos " meaning light ; it appeared in the late 1960s to describe a research field whose goal was to use light to perform functions, that traditionally fell within the typical domain of electronics, such as telecommunications, information processing, etc.

The Heptanese School of painting succeeded the Cretan school as the leading school of Greek post-Byzantine painting after Crete fell to the Ottomans in 1669.

It derived its name from Icarus, the son of Daedalus in Greek mythology, who fell into the sea nearby.

In 281 BC, the Greek city of Tarentum, in southern Italy, fell out with Rome and was faced with a Roman attack and certain defeat.

He fell into ill-health, and had to be removed from school before he was twelve ; but on his recovery he was sent at this early age to Glasgow University, and displayed so much precocious learning, especially in Greek, that he was offered a Snell exhibition at Oxford.

John related the " Son of Perdition " concepts by language, referring to " the star that fell from heaven " Revelation by two names, one Greek, and the other Hebrew.

The cataphracts deployed by the Byzantine Empire ( most noticeably after the 7th century, when Late Latin ceased to be the official language of the empire ) were exclusively referred to as Kataphraktoi, due to the Byzantine Empire's strong Greek influence, as opposed to the Romanized term Cataphractos, which subsequently fell out of use.

After a protracted siege, Sestos fell to the Athenians, marking the beginning of a new phase in the Greco-Persian Wars, the Greek counterattack.

Within this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are neither Greek nor Jansenist there is not such clarity.

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

Hegel's profound admiration for the insights of the Greek tragedians indicates a broad channel of classical influence upon nineteenth-century philosophy.

Greek boys and girls also go for rock-and-roll, and the stations most tuned to are those carrying United States overseas programs.

The word `` tragedy '' encloses for us in a single span both the Greek and the Elizabethan example.

Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption.

`` The great Greek tragedies are concerned with man against Fate, not man against man for the prize of a woman's body.

( Hymen, in fact, is the Greek word for membrane.

Scientists assume that cholesterol ( from the Greek chole, meaning bile, and sterios, meaning solid ) is somehow necessary for the formation of brain cells, since it accounts for about 2% of the brain's total solid weight.

After Thomas Aquinas wrote his theology, working from Moerbeke's translations, the demand for Aristotle's writings grew and the Greek manuscripts returned to the West, stimulating a revival of Aristotelianism in Europe that continued into the Renaissance.

The genus Amoeba and amoeboids in general both derive their names from the ancient Greek word for change.

Apollo shot arrows infected with the plague into the Greek encampment during the Trojan War in retribution for Agamemnon's insult to Chryses, a priest of Apollo whose daughter Chryseis had been captured.

The earliest Greek word for a statue is " delight " ( άγαλμα: agalma ), and the sculptors tried to create forms which would inspire such guiding vision.

The muscular frames and limbs combined with slim waists indicate the Greek desire for health, and the physical capacity which was necessary in the hard Greek environment.

The adoption of a standard recognizable type for a long time, is probably because nature gives preference in survival of a type which has long be adopted by the climatic conditions, and also due to the general Greek belief that nature expresses itself in ideal forms that can be imagined and represented.

The Greek sculptors tried to clarify it by looking for mathematical proportions, just as they sought some reality behind appearances.

The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.

The Latin word came from Greek ἄβαξ abax " board strewn with sand or dust used for drawing geometric figures or calculating "( the exact shape of the Latin perhaps reflects the genitive form of the Greek word, ἄβακoς abakos ).

The earliest archaeological evidence for the use of the Greek abacus dates to the 5th century BC.

The Greek abacus was a table of wood or marble, pre-set with small counters in wood or metal for mathematical calculations.