Grant me to overwhelm the Greeks with their mad bark : the thought of my children [the Boreades on the Argo] moves me not, only do thou quench these threats of mortal man, while still the shores of Thesally and as yet no other lands have seen their sails.’ He ceased speaking: ...
‘For a word of hate let a word of hate be said,’ Dike (Justice) cries out as she exacts the debt, ‘and for a murderous stroke let a murderous stroke be paid.’‘Let it be done to him as he does,’ says the age-old wisdom."...
to, towards (adductor) When used as a prefix the d is sometimes changed to the first consonant of the following word, e.g., acclimate, afferent, assimilate; As a suffix it means towards the part of the body indicated by word to which it is suffixed, e.g., cephalad, towards the ...
properly, the inner bark of the papyrus plant, i.e. (by implication) a sheet or scroll of writing:--book. 977 bibrwskwbibroskobib-ro'-sko a reduplicated and prolonged form of an obsolete primary verb (perhaps causative of 1006); to eat:--eat. 978 BiquniaBithuniabee-thoo-nee'-ah ...
The doxography tells us that according to Anaximander life originated from the moisture that covered the earth before it was dried up by the sun. The first animals were a kind of fish, with a thorny skin (the Greek word is the same that was used for the metaphor 'the bark of a tree...
The same day, the baby slipped out of his mother's sight and and went searching for adventure. He stumbled upon the pastures of the gods and stole 50 cows fromApollo. He then disguised his tracks by cobbling together "shoes" made of bark from a fallen oak tree. To make it even harde...
Theophrastus (Hist. Plant, i. 1, 搂 11) speaks of the fiv/cns and the vhvov as having neither root, stem (icavkos) branch, bud, leaf, flower, nor fruit, neither again bark, pith, fibies, nor veins; but in i. 5, 搂3, he speaks of the stem (KavXo'i) of the fjLi>KT]...
Mars Alator is attested in Roman Britain by an inscription found on an altar at South Shields, and a silver-gilt votive plaque that was part of the Barkway hoard from Hertfordshire. Alator has been interpreted variously as "Huntsman" or "Cherisher". Mars Albiorix appears in an inscrip...
The word began with the Roman word for the sun and their god of the sun, who was called Sol. Solar energy is a safe kind of energy. It doesn't make pollution or have dangerous leftovers. That is why scientists and investors are experimenting with ways of harnessing(治理利用)the sun to...
: "Lay aside thy fears [for the beloved dead], and be no more in dread of threatening Letus (Death) [Thanatos] : Cerberus with triple jaws will not bark at him, no Sister [Erinys] will terrify him with flames and towering hydras."...