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...nings. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote that Thales of Miletus predicted an eclipse that occurred during a war between the Medians and the Lydians. Both sides put down their weapons and declared peace as a result of the eclipse. The Trojan War and the final battle of the Iliad occurred during a solar eclipse on June 11, 1312 BC. A solar eclipse occurred in Franc...

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...ble to explainthe heavenly events as seen in the skies. Independent of the language (Hebrew, Arabic or English) names given tothese heavenly bodies an... ...tellations and what they represent may be the oldest surviving text of any language. Does this point to somelevel of importance and significance to ma... ...redicted an eclipse that occurred during a war between the Medians and the Lydians. Both sides put10down their weapons and declared peace as a result ... ...Pilgrims survive in this New World. He spoke Englishbecause he learned the language in England and his name was Samoset. Samoset was set free from sla... ...wn sentences in the English language", containing "the m... ... mentioned during the debates about the United States Constitution and its language wasnot incorporated into that document. George Mason's draft of th...

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... style based on an idiomatic plainness that survives in almost all English-languagepoetry today, and, in some ways regarding these elements, his influ... ...city clock!At morn my sick heart hunger scarcely stung,Nor to the beggar’s language could I fit my tongue. XLIIISo pas... ...itals. MAR. Now, whither are you wandering? That a manSo used to suit his language to the time,Should thus so widely differ from himself—It is most s... ... half create,And what perceive; well pleased to recogniseIn nature and the language of the sense,The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,The guide... ...; thou my dearest Friend,My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catchThe language of my former heart, and readMy former pleasures in the shooting li... ...le-day,Thrilling the unweaponed crowd with plumeless heads?—Even She whose Lydian airs inspirePeaceful striving, gentle playOf timid hope and innocent...

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...father Terah in the land of his nativity, inAND the whole earth was of one language, and of Ur of the Chaldees. 29 And Abram and Nahor tookone s... ...h died in Haran.LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they haveall one language; and this they begin to do: and now CHAPTER 12nothing... ... of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thythere confound their language, that they may not father’s house, unto a land that I will sh... ...se him that curseth thee: and in thee shall allLORD did there confound the language of all the families of the earth be blessed. 4 So Abramearth... ...er of Gozan, and in the cities pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; forof the Medes: 12 Because they obeyed not the voice we unde... ...nd of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle andthe remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land o...

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...lected verse of John Donne. Donne, 1572–1631, was born in London, England, and, as evidenced by the verse collected here, is one of the great English language poets and thinkers in modern history illuminating the human condition through a verse marked for its argument, metaphysical conceit, metaphorical illuminations, and deep passions, whether they be focussed on love, Go...

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... and, asevidenced by the verse collected here, is one of the great English languagepoets and thinkers in modern history illuminating the human c... ...e, And we said nothing, all the day.If any, so by love refin’d, That he soul’s language understood,And by good love were grown all mind, Within con... ...by late law, sets free:These miracles we did; but now, alas,All measure, and all language, I should pass,Should I tell what a miracle she was. ... ...stry, Oh, thou dost proveToo subtle: Fool, thou didst not understandThe mystique language of the eye nor hand:Nor couldst thou judge the difference of... ...sonablest, when our taste And appetite to other things, is past.Xerxes’ strange Lydian love, the Platane tree, Was lov’d for age, none being so old ... ...ence, embracements, kisses?Shadow’d with negligence our best respects?Varied our language through all dialects,Of becks, winks, looks, and often under...

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...$PELWLRQ %N,6DW9, $QFHVWU\ PDWWHUV LQ SXEOLF DIIDLUVMaecenas, though none of the Lydians settledIn Tuscany is of nobler birth than yours,And th... ...ulOr hard to do what Pitholeon of Rhodes achieved!‘But a style harmoniously mixing both languagesIs more delightful, like Chian and Falernian wine.’Wh... ...ll, it’s a worry how to hold it all in mind,Since it’s a subtle theme, framed in subtle language.’Declare the teacher’s name and if he’s Roman or not.... ... he lifts his arms skywards crying: “Enough!”Inflate the swollen bladder with overblown language.And when he frees you from long and careful serviceAn... ...ar, indeed like a crystal river,He’ll pour out riches, and bless Latium with a wealthOf language: he’ll prune excess, smooth the coarseWith healthy re... ...ny fade now well-regarded, if Usage wills it so,To whom the laws, rules, and control of language belong. $3 :KDW WKH WUDGLWLRQ GLFWDWHVH... ...and home of Medea.AP:73-118 Noted for its fierce warriors.ColophonAn Ionian city on the Lydian coast.BkIEpXI:1-30 A famous port.CoranusA minor off... ...us for itswealth.BkISatVI:1-44 Maecenas’ ancestors were Etruscans andtherefore of Lydian ancestry.LynceusOne of the Argonauts, the son of Aphare... ... Capua, Horaceplaying on the double meanings!BkISatVI:1-44 His ancestors were Lydians who settled inTuscany.BkISatVI:45-64 H...

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... book of Genesis that Babel, orBabylon, was the first home of the manifold languages of mankind. Thecountry for the most part had been won from the se... ... earliest civilization of Western Asia finds its expression inthe Sumerian language and script. To whatever race the writer mightbelong he clothed his... ...ted and re-actedon each other. A mixed people was the result, with a mixed languageand a mixed form of religion. The Babylonia of later days was, in f... .... The Babylonia of later days was, in fact,a country whose inhabitants and language were as composite as theinhabitants and language of modern England... ...he Babylonian scribes were forced to give translations of them in theirown language.But all these incomers belonged to the Semitic race, and the langu... ...imes added. The invention of a regular coinage isgenerally ascribed to the Lydians; but it was more probably due to theBabylonians, from whom both Lyd...

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..." He Then Maintained That The Sciences Are Superior In All RespectsTo Languages As Educational Material; They Train The MemoryBetter, And A Su... ... Ten Thousand Years Hence As They Do Now. TheExtra Knowledge Of Our Own Language, Which Is Given By AnAcquaintance With Latin And Greek, May Be C... ...hat Is Quasi-Intrinsic: It Must Exist For Us And For Other Races Whose Languages Owe Much To These Sources; But Will Last Only AsLong As Our Lan... ...ish, Éclat. Fully As We MayAdmit That Extensive Acquaintance With Modern Languages Is A Valuable Accomplishment, Which, Through Reading, Conversat... ...That The Taste May Be Improved By Reading The PoetryWritten In Extinct Languages; Yet It Is Not To Be Inferred That Such ImprovementOf Taste Is... ...e Into Use The Different Modes--Dorian, Ionian, Phrygian, Æolian, And Lydian--Answering To Our Keys; And Of These There WereUltimately Fifteen...

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...s strewn with vermilion; tables were set, and to theincitement of crotals, Lydians danced before the multitude, toasting thelast act of that wonderful... ... knew everything, save the caresses of women;that he was familiar with all languages; with the speech of bird andbeast; with that of silence, for sile... ...; with the speech of bird andbeast; with that of silence, for silence is a language too; that he hadprayed in the Temple of Jupiter Lycoeus, where men... ...could not tellwho was the father of her child; but the lumps of gold had a languageof their own. The disbanded army espoused the young priest's cause;...

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...reek in writing long after it hadceased to bear much resemblance to the spoken language - in fact, upto the present century. If there is no reference ... ...d of Castalia from yours. 94. Epitaph on a WarriorThis is Amyntor's Lydian grave. His might Was best shown on the iron battle field.No dr... ...ase led him to realms of Night; He died screening a comrade with his shield.[Lydian: Persian.]This Lydian land holds Amyntor, Philip's son, whose ha... ...t sore at heart if I am another's." 124. A Barbarian ForeignerI am a Lydian; Lyde is my name - A nobler name than Athens' former kings'.Wh... ...day epics. But perhaps another Antimachus is meant]Lyde is my name and I am of Lydian race, and Antimachus has mademe more noble than any descendant o... ...he spirit of the slave speaks:Master, you placed Timanthes when I died, Your Lydian tutor, in a freeman's grave.Live, prosper, free from hurt; come ... ...adas. Some put him as late as 300 AD. I liketo think he is earlier because his language incorporates, here andthere, a touch of the Doric dialect. But... ...ith the words "Xanthippe is the end of my madness." 468. Universal LanguageOh feet! Oh legs! Oh fit-to-die-for thighs! Oh rump! Oh pube!...

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... of you, who wise with your training, shapedthe uncivilised ways of our new-born race,with language, and gracein the ways of wrestling, you the messen... ...ill play hard to get. %N,,, 9,,, &HOHEUDWLRQYou, an expert in prose in either language,wonder what I, a bachelor, am doingon the Kalends ... ...effectivelyby constraining what I desire,than if I were to join the Mygdonian plainsto the Lydian kingdom. To those who want much,much is lacking: he’... ...ites laid down,then, in the manner of our fathers, bravely,in verse, that’s accompanied by Lydian flutes,we’ll sing past leaders, we’ll sing of Troy,A... ...hy weep, Asterie, for Gyges, whom west winds .........145You, an expert in prose in either language,.....................148‘While I was the man, dear...

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...f Haeckel’s “Riddle.”It sold millions of copies in more than 20 languages. And a seriousmodern writer on Haeckel would have poin... ...ghest authority and best writer on thesubject in the English language. But the cloven hoof appears here andthere. We get the ridic... ... was a prac-tical social maxim borrowed from the gay-living Lydians, and that it, wasa blend of this with the same central ...

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...easons for different sects ofreligions to occur like different dialects of language.People are not all alike and during the early dayswhen Our Lord wa... ...being 29Hebrew is a bloodline. There is no Jewish language,but there is a Hebrew language. Most people calling themselves ... ...HE EARTH (Revelation 17:1-6). When the Bible uses symbolic language, a “woman” can symbolize a church. The true church, fo... ...ND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. When the Bible uses symbolic language, a “woman” can symbolize a church. The true church, fo... ...em. Now the whole Egyptian history has beentranslated at large into the language of the Greeks,and especially the part concerning their theology, b... ...e of Omphale, queenof those who were at that time called Maeonians,but now Lydians: and during the time of his slaveryhe has a son Cleolaus born to hi...

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...Sunderland were unequivocallymanifested. "It is easy," such was the language of several members, "itis easy to guess by whom that unhappy sente... ...liberties of theircountry. Was it reasonable,-such was the language of somescribblers,-that an honest gentleman should pay a heav... ...ned. One gentleman, who had made himself conspicuousby the severity of his language, went about with pistols in his pockets.Howe, whose courage was no... ...ich the Russian legations made in England. Thestrangers spoke no civilised language. Their garb, their gestures, theirsalutations, had a wild and barb... ...r or shopman, had planned gigantic improvements, hadlearned enough of some languages of Western Europe to enable him tocommunicate with civilised men,... ...ndchargers for the banquets of kings; and there Pomeranian amber wasset in Lydian gold to adorn the necks of queens. In the warehouseswere collected t...

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...ver delights the stalls,Pleasing forms, or established skill.Here, the fat Lydian ladies applaud,There are cymbals, jingling Spaniards,And there, the ... ...s Smyrna,You drank from the Meles’ holy springs, fromHermus’ waters, where Lydian Bacchus bathes,Re-gilding his horns with its fine aureate sands.Then... ...e, everySon’s debt to his father, but this lyrical grace, however unworthy,Language beyond the common, hope of fame beyond the grave.How you gazed whe... ... mind finds nothing equal to thisLightning-stroke. All speech falls short, language itselfIs useless. Forgive me, lad, you’ve buried me in deepestDark...

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...We should note that thereference work in philology remains Düring’s German language edition, AristotelesProtreptikos, Frankfurt, 1969. Lastly, I have ... ...nt into exile outside Athens:173 The dialectician’s ambition was to put language to the test “by fire and the sword” (Gorgias), to slip a knife ... ...cal logic, which claims to escapecircles, never escaped anything, not even language. And, moreover,both express the vision and logic of Christianity t... ...s, since at the start of his narrative Hesiod clearly states thatthey have language. So these are fully men – supermen in theNietzschean sense. But, s... ... A, 4, 984b 31-32, trans. Barnes. According to Syrianus, the use ofobscure language by Hesiod and the theologians can be explained by the fact thatthe... ... the eclipse of the sunwhich took place at the time when the Medes and the Lydians engaged in battle”, D-K I, 74-75, trans. Sir Thomas Heath.529 Szabo...

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...We should note that thereference work in philology remains Düring’s German language edition, AristotelesProtreptikos, Frankfurt, 1969. Lastly, I have ... ...nt into exile outside Athens:173 The dialectician’s ambition was to put language to the test “by fire and the sword” (Gorgias), to slip a knife ... ...cal logic, which claims to escapecircles, never escaped anything, not even language. And, moreover,both express the vision and logic of Christianity t... ...s, since at the start of his narrative Hesiod clearly states thatthey have language. So these are fully men – supermen in theNietzschean sense. But, s... ... A, 4, 984b 31-32, trans. Barnes. According to Syrianus, the use ofobscure language by Hesiod and the theologians can be explained by the fact thatthe... ... the eclipse of the sunwhich took place at the time when the Medes and the Lydians engaged in battle”, D-K I, 74-75, trans. Sir Thomas Heath.529 Szabo...

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...h of information. I said usually, because there are places these are used: legal language uses a number of near-redundant expressions (fair and reaso... ...ly General consensus Absolutely certain Mutual agreement Translation from one language into another There on the spot Located at... As usual, a... ...parallel worlds spoke a very specialized jargon indeed, 16th-17th century English-languagethieves' cant. So, if I've done it, I won't tell you not to.... ...s and you're planning to be a writer down the road, you might want to learn anold language or two. All those Latin classes I took have proven darned h... ...Writing 202," but let me zero in on aparticular linguistic difference any English-language writer can use in naming: Anglo-Saxon vs. Latinand Greek. ... ...an Greeks in the late sixth century BC." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin#Lydian_and_Ionian_electrum_coins_(circa_600_BC) So, even though mos...

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...e, you must plougha vast reach of sea: and you will come to Hesperia’s land,where Lydian Tiber flows in gentle course among the farmers’rich fields. T... ...ds, you who know Apollo’s will,the tripods, the laurels at Claros, the stars, the languageof birds, and the omens of their wings in flight,come, speak... ...Not far from here is the site of Argylla’s city,built of ancient stone, where the Lydian race,famous in war, once settled the Etruscan heights.For man... ...m on the proud gates.The conquered peoples walk past in a long line, as diversein language as in weapons, or the fashion of their clothes.Here Vulcan ... ... has reached Corythus’s furthest cities,and, gathering men from the country, arms Lydian troops.Why wait? Now is the time to call on horse and chariot... ...u too Ismarus,dipping reed-shafts in venom, and aiming themto wound, from a noble Lydian house, there where mentill rich fields, that the Pactolus wat... ... forces with himwithout delay, and agreed a treaty: then fulfilling their fatethe Lydian people took to their ships by divine command,trusting to a ‘f... ...hange their ancient name,to become Trojans or be called Teucrians,or change their language, or alter their clothing.Let Latium still exist, let there ...

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...s, and she began to speak,gently, quietly, in an angelic voice,in her language: ‘O noble Mantuanspirit, whose fame still endures in... ...HV WKH VLQQHUV He replied: ‘The first, of thoseyou wish to know of, was Empressof many languages, so corrupted bythe vice of luxury, that she madeli... ...re,the dismal words, having, at theirsource, no exit from the fire, werechanged into its language. But whenthey had found a path out throughthe tip, g... ...He declares himself. This isNimrod, through whose evilthought, one language is not stillused, throughout the whole world.Let us ... ...he place:to tell of the pit of the Universe isnot a task to be taken up in play, norin a language that has words like‘mother’ and ‘father’. But may th... ...ise in his honour.Paradiso Canto XXIX:1-66. The sun. 1011 $UDFKQH A Lydian girl, the daughter of Idmon, famous for her weaving, w...

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...to hexatone to heptatone to the octatonic explicitdebauchery of adulthood. Lydian lithes sculpt in tithed titration the filteredexperiences of life th... ...e macroscopic tick and thatgargantuan chick hatched and speaking the first language soul braille, brittle andcaked, much like the semen around Bill’s ...