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κατανοήσατε τὰ κρίνα [τοῦ ἀγροῦ] πῶς αὐξάνει· οὐ κοπιᾷ οὐδὲ νήθει -> Look at field-lilies, how they keep growing. They don’t toil, they don’t spin. (Luke 12:27)

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δέξηται, δέχονται, ύπεδέξατο, προσδέχεται -> should receive, receive, received, receives

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ἐπεὶ τὴν πόλιν ἔσωσεν, ἐπέμφθη εἰς τὴν νῆσον.

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Ἰστέον δὲ ὅτι παρ᾽ Ὁμήρῳ οὐχ᾽ ἁπλῶς ἡ φωνὴ λέγεται ὄσσα καθὰ παρὰ τοῖς ὕστερον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡ ὄσσα καὶ ἡ κληδὼν καὶ ἡ ὀμφὴ καὶ ἡ φήμη ὡς πολλαχοῦ φανήσεται, θεῖόν τι ἐστὶ καὶ σημαντικὸν τοῦ μέλλοντος (Eustathius, Commentary on Odyssey 1.282f.)

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ϰάλεσον τὸν αἶγα.

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οὐ σύ με λοιδορεῖς, ἀλλ᾿ ὁ τόπος (Αίσωπος) -> it is not thou who mockest me, but the roof on which thou art standing (Aesop)

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μακάριοι οἱ πτωχοί τῷ πνεύματι ὄτι αὐτῶν ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν –> blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3)

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βῆ δ' ἀκέων παρὰ θῖνα πολυφλοίσβοιο θαλάσσης

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ἀναγκαίως δ' ἔχει βίον θερίζειν ὥστε κάρπιμον στάχυν, καὶ τὸν μὲν εἶναι, τὸν δὲ μή -> But it is our inevitable lot to harvest life like a fruitful crop, for one of us to live, one not. (Euripides, "Hypsipyle" fr. 60.94ff.)

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ὁ ὄφις ὁ ἀρχαῖος: Lyrics from a song

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τοὺς φίλους λύσᾱς, ἔθῡσε τοῖς θεοῖς.

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Ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτίμησεν... -> The Council and the People honored... (inscription in the Roman city of Aizonai)

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Time in Verb/Participle Constructs: e.g., συνάγονται...ἐλθόντες / ἰδόντες...ἐπερωτῶσιν (Mark 7:1-5)

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Τò πολλάκις ταὐτò λέγειν -> Saying the same thing many times (Aristotle, On Sophistical Refutations)

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τὸν καπνὸν φεύγων εἰς τὸ πῦρ ἐνέπεσεν -> out of the frying pan into the fire, from the frying pan into the fire

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Ὀ λίθος ἐστὶ σθένος -> The stone is strength

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διὰ λαμπροτάτου βαίνοντες ἁβρῶς αἰθέρος -> passing lightly through clear-shining air (Euripides, "Medea" 829)

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Δυσαμένη δὲ κάρηνα βαθυκνήμιδος ἐρίπνης / Δελφικὸν ἄντρον ἔναιε φόβῳ λυσσώδεος Ἰνοῦς (Nonnus, Dionysiaca 9.273f.)-> Having descended from the top of a deep-greaved cliff, she dwelt in a cave in Delphi, because of her fear of raving/raging Ino.

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ἐν μὲν γὰρ ταῖς ἐπιστολαῖς αὐτοῦ οὐδὲ μνήμην τῆς οἰκείας προσηγορίας ποιεῖται, ἢ πρεσβύτερον ἑαυτὸν ὀνομάζει, οὐδαμοῦ δὲ ἀπόστολον οὐδ' εὐαγγελιστήν (Eusebius, Demonstratio evangelica 3.5.88) -> For in his epistles he doesn't even make mention of his own name — or simply calls himself "the elder," but nowhere "apostle" or "evangelist."

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δειλῶν, οἳ φύλλοισιν ἐοικότες ἄλλοτε μέν τε ζαφλεγέες τελέθουσιν ἀρούρης καρπὸν ἔδοντες, ἄλλοτε δὲ φθινύθουσιν ἀκήριοι (Iliad 21)

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