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  • Imoinda being his lawful wife by solemn contract, 'twas he was the injured man, and might, if he so pleased take Imoinda back, the breach of the law being on his grandfather's side; and that if he could circumvent him, and redeem her from the otan, which is the palace of the king's women, a sort of seraglio, it was both just and lawful for him so to do.

    Oroonoko 1688

  • Exo anoixtes portes sto spiti mou otan tha erthies sti Thessaloniki!

    Guest post 2 – growing up in Canada « Ken Wilson's Blog 2009

  • 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

  • Or, reading otan paradexetai ton ippea (sc.o. ippos) ws anabesomenon, transl. “the horse has been brought round ready for mounting.”

    On Horsemanship 2007

  • They were not food - Food was a platter of sizzling vorst steak, a mound of well-cooked lattress, beaten, creamed with otan oil and herbs; it was an omelet of trurax eggs sweetened just enough with a syrup of bargee buds; it was -

    The Zero Stone Norton, Andre 1968

  • [Greek: kai archê de tou erôtos gignetai autê pasin, otan mê monon parontos chairôsin, alla kai apontos memnêmenoi erôsin.] [260] The line is a Fragment of Sophocles.

    Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

  • II. 12: {eperotetheis autos o Kurios upo tinos pote exei autou e basileia, eipen, otan estai ta duo en kai to exo os to eso kai to arsen meta tes theleias oute arsen oute thelu}.

    Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902

  • Socrates thus address his judges: {to de de meta touto epithumo umin khresmodesai, o katapsephisamenoi mou 'kai gar eimi ede entautha, en o malist' anthropoi khresmodousin, otan mellosin apothaneisthai}.

    The Apology 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • Or, reading {otan paradexetai ton ippea (sc.o. ippos) ws anabesomenon}, transl. "the horse has been brought round ready for mounting."

    On Horsemanship 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • [Greek: Ar oun, hôsper Hippos tô anepistêmoni men encheirounti de chrêsthai zêmia estin, houtô kai adelphos, otan tis autô mê epistamenos encheir chrêsthai, zêmia esti];

    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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