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A thing given they regard as a thing found, a hermaion, a happy hit in the lottery of life; the giver is the blind instrument of Fortune.
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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[1803] hermaion, a piece of unlooked-for luck, Hermes being the reputed giver of such gifts: vid.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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