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Apo kapoios pou tora leo tin ellada einai “spiti” ego pou eimai edo yia 15 xronia tora se katalaveno poly oti to poio megalo mathima otan menoume stis xores pou den einai ‘patrida’ einai oti einai entelos ormofoi oi anthropoi pantu!
Guest post 2 – growing up in Canada « Ken Wilson's Blog 2009
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Ekana tin apofasi na sou leo afto sta ellinika yiati ti glossa mas mitriki kai aftes tis glosses pou mathenoume meta einai ti kentriki ‘fleva’ na katalavanoume tin istoria mas kai ti sxesi pou exoume me to kosmo mas!
Guest post 2 – growing up in Canada « Ken Wilson's Blog 2009
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Scheid.cf. “Pol. Ath.” iii. 9, oste uparkhein demokratian einai.
On Hunting 2007
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See Schneider, n. ad loc. exesti de to neo kai kekrimeno eis makhen sunienai kai phaidron einai kai eudokimon. kai parakeleuontai de k.t.l. Zeune, kekrimeno komen, after Plut.
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Or, 'maintaining that this,' i.e. its destruction, 'was equivalent to its restoration' (kai touto, tên kathairesin, apodosin einai.).
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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The MSS. give kai ephe raston einai — “nothing is easier,” he said, “than recovering from sycophants.”
Memorabilia 2007
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For Aristotle, a definition is "an account which signifies what it is to be for something" (logos ho to ti ên einai sêmainei).
Aristotle's Logic Smith, Robin 2007
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For [Greek: philosophon plaethos adynaton einai], as your friend Plato has said, and you should not forget it.
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Eriugena particularly admires a Dionysian saying from the Celestial Hierarchy (CH iv 1; PG III. 177d1-2): to gar einai panton estin he hyper to einai theotes (˜for the being of all things is the Divinity above being™, III. 686d) which he translates as esse omnium est superesse divinitatis, (˜the being of all things is the super-being of divinity™, III. 686d, I. 443b; see also I. 516c; III. 644b, V. 903c).
John Scottus Eriugena Moran, Dermot 2004
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Harvey takes a different view of it, and supposes the original Greek to have been, kai allas men tes hupostaseos archas einai allas de tes aistheseos kai tes ousias.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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