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οὔτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ συμφιλεῖν ἔφυν -> I was not born to hate, but to love | Tis not my nature to join in hating, but in loving (Sophocles, Antigone 523)

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οὕτως εἴη ἡμίν ὁ Θεός βοηθός καὶ τὸ ἱερὸν Αὐτοῦ Εὐαγγέλιον ὧδε ἐμφανισθέντα-ὁρκισθέντα -> so help us God and Ηis holy Gospel the things here declared and sworn

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εἰς ὁδόν ἐθνῶν μὴ ἀπέλθητε -> go not into the way of the Gentiles (Matthew 10:5)

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διὸ καὶ μεταλάττουσι τὴν φυσικὴν χρῆσιν εἰς τὴν παρὰ φύσιν αἱ δοκοῦσαι παρθένοι τῶν εἰδώλων -> therefore those professing to be virgins of the idols even change the natural use into the unnatural (Origen, commentary on Romans 1:26)

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λῦσόν με , ἑταῖρε. οὐ γάρ σε οὑδέν ἔβλαψα.

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ἤκουσεν ἐν Ῥώμῃ καὶ ἀρσένων ἑταιρίαν εἶναι -> he heard that there was also a fellowship of males in Rome (Severius, commentary on Romans 1:27)

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ὦ ἀδελφοί, παύεσθε τρόπαια πρὸ τῆς μεγάλης οἰϰίας ἱστάμενοι.

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Pronouncing Iliad 1.1-7

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αἶρα -> darnel

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ἐπάμεροι· τί δέ τις; τί δ' οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος -> Neverlasting: What is a somebody? What is a nobody? You are a dream of a shadow | Creatures of a day. What is a someone, what is a no one? Man is the dream of a shade.

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ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν -> I searched myself, I searched into myself, I searched out myself, I went in search of myself, I explored myself, I sought myself (Heraclitus, fr. 101B)

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περί τοῦ πέρδεσθαι οὐ καταισχύνει, πάντων γὰρ περδομένων -> as for the farting, he causes no shame, because everybody farts

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ἔκβαλε πρῶτον ἐκ τοῦ ὀφθαλμοῦ σοῦ τὴν δοκόν, καὶ τότε διαβλέψεις ἐκβαλεῖν τὸ κάρφος ἐκ τοῦ ὀφθαλμοῦ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου -> first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye

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πᾶς ὁ ὑψῶν ἑαυτὸν ταπεινωθήσεται καὶ ὁ ταπεινῶν ἑαυτὸν ὑψωθήσεται -> for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted (Luke 14:11)

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ῥεῖα δ' ἀρίζηλον μινύθει καὶ ἄδηλον ἀέξει, ῥεῖα δέ τ' ἰθύνει σκολιὸν καὶ ἀγήνορα κάρφει -> easily he humbles the proud and raises the obscure, and easily he straightens the crooked and blasts the proud (Hesiod, Works and Days 6-8)

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τί δὲ βλέπεις τὸ κάρφος τὸ ἐν τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου, τὴν δὲ ἐν τῷ σῷ ὀφθαλμῷ δοκὸν οὐ κατανοεῖς; -> Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? (Matthew 7:3)

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φήσετε τάσδε κακὰ πράττειν.

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Ἀδώνι' ἄγομεν καὶ τὸν Ἄδωνιν κλᾴομεν -> We conduct the rites of Adonis, we weep for Adonis (Pherecrates, fr. 170)

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μὴ εἴπῃς ὠς οὐκ ἔστι Ζεύς -> don't say that there is no Zeus

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Xenathon -> Ξεναθών

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