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It is easy, as Aristotle says, to fill in the details if only the outlines are rightly drawn -- [Greek: doxeie d 'an pantos einai proagagein kai diorthosai ta kalos echonta te perigraphe.]
Religion and Art in Ancient Greece Ernest Arthur Gardner
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'Anaximenes de kai' Anaxago ras kai Demokritos to platos aition einai phasi tou menein auten; ou gar temnein all 'epipomatizein (covers like a lid) ton a& 153; ra ton katothen, hoper phainetai ta platos echonta ton somaton poiein
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Kopse gar auton echonta kata staethos para deiraen,
The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881
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[Greek: êdê leukon echonta karê polion te geneion thymon apopneiont 'alkimon en koniê].
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You get the exact phrase in Habakkuk, if you take the Septuagint text, -- "[Greek: poiêseis tous anthrôpous hôs tous ichthyas tês thalassês, kai hôs ta herpeta ta ouk echonta hêgoumenon]."
Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859
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-- "[Greek: poiêseis tous anthrôpous hôs tous ichthyas tês thalassês, kai hôs ta herpeta ta ouk echonta hêgoumenon."] "Thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the reptile things, _that have no ruler over them_."
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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Kopse gar auton echonta kata staethos para deiraen,
Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848
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* ton a& 153; ra ton katothen, hoper phainetai ta platos echonta ton somaton poiein: [2548] 1
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Scriptures of the Lord, let them know that they draw inspiration and life therefrom and, making these their starting-point give their meaning only, not their letter "([Greek: kan heteroia tisi tôn pollôn kataphainêtai ta hyph 'hêmôn legomena tôn kyriakôn graphôn, isteon hoti ekeithen anapnei te kai zê kai tas aphormas ap' autôn echonta ton noun monon, ou tên lexin, paristan epangelletai]). [
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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Tas peri te ta kala legomena chromata kai peri ta schaemata, kai ton osmon tas pleistas, kai tas ton phthongon, kai osa tas endeias anaisthaetous echonta kai alupous, tas plaeroseis aisthaetas kai aedeias katharas lupon paradidosi.] “What pleasures then, Socrates, may one justly conclude to be true ones? ”
Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846
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