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Examples
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Ou hamelei ge toi kai oi poiaetai melopoioi legontai, kai ta Omaerou epae to palai pros lyran aedeto.
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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Houtos goun ho logos, ho Christos kai tou einai palai hēmas, ēn gar en Theō, kai tou eu einai aitios.
Christologia 1616-1683 1965
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* [1048] Houtos goun ho logos, ho Christos kai tou einai palai hēmas, ēn gar en Theō, kai tou eu einai aitios.
Christologia 1616-1683 1965
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[Greek: Ô tekna, Kadmou tou palai nea trophê] and so on.
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Ia laua i kaha aku e hoi a hiki i ka pahu kapu o Kahalaomapuana, aia hoi ilaila, ua hoopiiia ka huelo o ua moo nui nei iluna o ka pahu kapu, ua uhiia i ka _oloa_, ka ieie, a me ka palai, a he mea weliweli loa ia laua ka nana ana aku.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915
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The transition from temporal to logical priority is paralleled in certain uses of other temporal adverbs, e.g. [Greek: _euthys_] (Aristotle, _Poet_. v), and [Greek: _schol_e_] (of which, as Weil notes, [Greek: _palai_] is the exact opposite).
The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912
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Well, then, the books bearing the name of Peter, of which I recognise ([Greek: egnôn]) one Epistle only as genuine and acknowledged among the elders of former days ([Greek: palai]), are those just enumerated ([Greek: tosauta]).
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858
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Origen, in the preface to his refutation of Celsus, distinctly states that this person had been long dead ([Greek: êdê kai palai nekron]).
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858
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Of this foreign word, applied by the mediæval Greeks to silk in general, as well as to raw silk, PROCOPIUS says: -- [Greek: "Ahutê de estin hê metaxa, ex hês eiothasi tên esthêta ergazesthai, hên palai men Hellênes mêdikên, tanun de sêrikên onomazousi."] -- PROCOP.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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* Eugar iste hō Athēnaioi, ei egō palai epecheirēsa prattein ta politika pragmata, palai an aplōlein. — kai moi mē achthesthe legonti t 'alēthē. ou gar ostin hostis anthrōpōn sōthēsetai, oute humin oute allō uudeni plēthes gnēsiōs enantioumenos, kai diakōluōn polla adika kai paranoma en tē poles gigresthai.
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