: "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."...
‘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."...
He was so besotted with chicken that we had broken every rule in the dog-rearing manual by using the word ‘chicken’ on occasions where danger loomed and every other command was flatly ignored. I turned and looked at Wallace on the back seat. He was panting. He’d definitely heard the ...
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]...
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...
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 inscript...
the new D-A-F-C tuning became identical to the first four strings of the traditional guitar. The bouzouki is played with a plectrum (pena or pick), which, in older times, would have been made from a bird’s feather, a horn or the bark of a cherry tree. Greek bouzouki is different...
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...
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]...
leapt away, a groan came from the ground, the bushes blanched, the spattered sward was soaked with gouts of blood, stones brayed and bellowed, dogs began to bark, black snakes swarmed on the soil and ghostly shapes of silent spirits floated through the air."...