And even today this tale has a truth to tell, namely, that wherever a State has a mortal, and no god, for ruler, there the people have no rest from ills and toils; and it deems that we ought by every means to imitate the life of the age of Kronos, as tradition paints it." [C...
Acacius is a Latinized form of the Ancient Greek Akakios and can be interpreted to relate to the same root as the name Acacia, for the thorn bush, or Akakios which means “not evil.” Achaikos Achaikos is a Greek variation Achaicus which is a Greek place-name. Achilios Achilios is...
The epigram suited the Byzantine taste for the ornamental and for intellectual ingenuity. It corresponded exactly to the concept of the minor arts that attained high development in the Byzantine period. Making no lofty demands on the imagination of the author, its chief difficulty lay rather in te...
[Hebrew #2710 chaqaq (khaw-kak’) a primitive root; properly, to hack; i.e. engrave (Judges 5:14, to be a scribe simply); by implication, to enact (laws being cut in stone or metal tablets in primitive times) or (generally) prescribe. Appoint, decree, governor, grave, lawgiver, ...
These father Hephaistos had made with his inimitable art, breathing defiant fire between their teeth, like the pair of brazenfooted bulls which he made for Aietes (Aeetes) the redoubtable ruler of the Kolkhians (Colchians), with hot collars and burning pole. Eurymedon [one of the Kabeiroi...
Isaac Angelus, more insolently, styled Frederick the First 'chief prince of Alemannia.' The great Hohenstaufen, half resentful, half contemptuous, told the Eastern envoys that he was Romanorum Imperator, and bade their master call himself 'Romaniorum,' from the Thracian province of Romania. [...
The chief industries of Homeric times are those of the carpenter (GREEK), the worker in leather (GREEK), the smith or worker in metal (GREEK),—whose implements are the hammer and pincers,—and the potter (GREEK); also spinning and weaving, which were carried on by the women. The fine...
Etymology (Root Origin)?? English Examples ?? ab-, a-, abs- away Latin ab away abnormal, abrasion, abstract, aversion,absent ac-, acu- sharp or pointed Latin acutus past participle of acuere to sharpen, from acus needle acid, acupunture acri- sharp, pungent, bitter, eager, fierce Latin...
chief person (or figuratively, place) of a province:--governor, prince, ruler. 2233 hgeomaihegeomaihayg-eh'-om-ahee middle voice of a (presumed) strengthened form of agw - ago 71; to lead, i.e. command (with official authority); figuratively, to deem, i.e. consider:--account, (...
There is no strong antipathy of race or religion; the war turns on no political events; the capture of Troy lies outside the range of Iliad ; and even the main characters are not Greek. So far as can be seen, the chief interest in Homer's works is that of human feeling and emotion...