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Πλέων επί οίνοπα πόντον επ' αλλοθρόους ανθρώπους (Odyssey 1.183) -> While sailing over the wine-dark sea to men of strange speech

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προάστιον τῆς ἄκρας -> the suburb of the citadel, the suburb of the acropolis

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κτῆμα ἐς ἀεί -> a possession for all time (Thucydides 1.22)

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δεδώκαμεν πίστιν -> we have given assurance

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Δός μοι πᾷ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινήσω -> Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth (Archimedes)

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αχλυς ος πριν επηεν -> The mist that was upon (the eyes) before (Homer via Poe)

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Γελᾷ δ' ὁ μωρός, κἄν τι μὴ γέλοιον ᾖ -> The fool laughs even when there's nothing to laugh at (Menander, Γνῶμαι μονόστιχοι 108)

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μολὼν λαβέ -> come and take them (Leonidas via Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica 225C12)

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Ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς (Plutarch, Moralia 241; modern monotonic: ή ταν ή επί τας) -> either with this or on this, come back victorious or dead

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