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[723] The inscription was in Greek, kalos telothaesanti.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 10: Vespasian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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A more interesting (because a more just) observation would have been that echein, in the sense of "to be," (as in the phrase kalos echein, ver. 18,) is characteristic of S. Mark.
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871
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The phrase kalos kai agathos (beautiful and good) was the standard description of the Homeric heroes.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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The phrase kalos kai agathos (beautiful and good) was the standard description of the Homeric heroes.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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The phrase kalos kai agathos (beautiful and good) was the standard description of the Homeric heroes.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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He derived the name from the Greek terms kalos meaning "beautiful," eidos, for "form," and skopos, meaning "to look at."
A Local Life: Cozy Baker, 86; Outlook of kaleidoscope collector was transformed by beauty T. Rees Shapiro 2010
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Visual references are stitched through the language - old women were called 'gauna,' literally 'hot milk-skin'; you spoke not of being good but of appearing good; the most precious possession in the city were the well-born, pulchritudinous young men, the kalos k'athagos - the 'noble in mind and appearance.'
"The Hemlock Cup," a history of Socrates Post 2011
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Visual references are stitched through the language - old women were called 'gauna,' literally 'hot milk-skin'; you spoke not of being good but of appearing good; the most precious possession in the city were the well-born, pulchritudinous young men, the kalos k'athagos - the 'noble in mind and appearance.'
"The Hemlock Cup," a history of Socrates Post 2011
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The genus name Hemerocallis comes from the Greek words hemera, meaning "day" and kalos, translating to "beautiful".
Brigitte Mars: Delightful Day Lilies with Brigitte Mars 2010
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Greek, or of Dover who teases out the ambiguities of kalos (111-21), should make us wary of gesturing towards transparency.
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006
missanthropist commented on the word kalos
Greek Beautiful. Also, Calos.
July 9, 2008