How To Use Sthene In A Sentence
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How about apatite, apophyllite, axinite, chlorite, hypersthene, scapolite, serpentine, tantalite, and wolframite?
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Accordingly, not wishing to incur expense in their present want of money, they sent back at once the Thracians who came too late for Demosthenes, under the conduct of Diitrephes, who was instructed, as they were to pass through the Euripus, to make use of them if possible in the voyage alongshore to injure the enemy.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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BRONZITE, a member of the pyroxene group of minerals, belonging with enstatite and hypersthene to the orthorhombic series of the group.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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'Hypersthene rock' is a granular mixture of labradorite and hypersthene.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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Demosthenes was choregus in 348, and trierarch in 363, 359, and 357.
The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2
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Various mineral localities occur throughout the county, of which some of the most important occur on the shore at Portsoy, as for example the gabbro masses in Portsoy Bay with enstatite, hypersthene and labradorite, the graphic granite with microcline, muscovite and tourmaline at East Head, the chiastolite-schist west of the marble quarry, the mottled serpentine with strings of chrysotile.
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Demosthenian eloquence," said Don Quixote, "means the eloquence of Demosthenes, as Ciceronian means that of Cicero, who were the two most eloquent orators in the world.
Don Quixote
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Dan - Eratosthenes lived around 200BC, and provided the most solid empirical proof of the spherical nature of the Earth.
The world used to be flat.
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The scholiast to the _De Corona_ of Demosthenes [191] says that the "hieron" of Calamites, an eponymous hero, was close to the
The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
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The most fundamental characteristic of tholeiites is the presence of a low-Ca pyroxene (e.g., hypersthene).
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Hipparchus was critical of the grid defined by Eratosthenes, saying reasonably enough that it was chosen arbitrarily.
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The plagioclase feldspar weathers to produce a whitish gray rock, while the mafic minerals (olivine, augite and hypersthene) produce contrasting darker grains.
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In the field of geodesy, however, Eratosthenes will always be remembered for his measurements of the Earth.
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Eratosthenes noticed that at noon in the town of Syene today called Aswan, during the summer solstice, a stick in the ground casts no shadow.
Euclid’s Window
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For Darius Demosthenes, 26, who has been living at this facility for six weeks, it is actually the promised macaroni and cheese that will help him most feel at home this Thanksgiving.
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Little-weathered grains of hypersthene and rare clasts of limestone persist throughout the profile, as evidence for limited chemical weathering.
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Cynicism was originally the philosophy of a group of ancient Greeks called the Cynics, founded by Antisthenes.
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a metallic sheen or "schiller," which is even more pronounced in hypersthene than in bronzite.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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In his third effort to convince the Athenians of the threat from Macedonia, Demosthenes finally won some support and was appointed admiral of the Athenian fleet.
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The two Eratostheneses — murderer and murderee — are not the same person, though.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Unwritten Law, Written:
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Eratosthenes's sieve drains out composite numbers and leaves prime numbers behind.
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An octagon tower surrounds the rotunda, which is ornamented with Grecian cornices, etc., and its dome is decorated at top with a similar ornament to that of the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, commonly called the Lanthorn of Demosthenes.
A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913
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a metallic sheen or "schiller," which is even more pronounced in hypersthene than in bronzite.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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This range curves round towards the east, and finishes with a fine ring-plain called Eratosthenes -- some thirty-seven miles in diameter, with a floor depressed 8000 feet below the lunar surface.
To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story
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Kai oute ho panu dunatos en logo ton en tais ekklesiais proestoton hetera touton erei, (oudeis gar huper ton didaskalon,) oute ho asthenes en to logo elattosei ten paradosin.
Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews."
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Demosthenes; but, like the daric, this gold coin would fluctuate in value relatively to silver.
Anabasis
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Other avifauna restricted to this ecoregion include Serra do Mar tyrant-manakin (Neopelma chrysolophum), Cipó canastero (EN) (Asthenes luizae), and Brasília tapaculo (VU) (Scytalopus novacapitalis).
Campos Rupestres montane savanna
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Their metallic appearance arises from their being composed of a mineral called hypersthene.
A Yacht Voyage Round England
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He had been studying Eratosthenes' intriguing map, and was convinced that Phoenician sailors had circumnavigated the world.
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How about apatite, apophyllite, axinite, chlorite, hypersthene, scapolite, serpentine, tantalite, and wolframite?
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Various mineral localities occur throughout the county, of which some of the most important occur on the shore at Portsoy, as for example the gabbro masses in Portsoy Bay with enstatite, hypersthene and labradorite, the graphic granite with microcline, muscovite and tourmaline at East Head, the chiastolite-schist west of the marble quarry, the mottled serpentine with strings of chrysotile.
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Other associated minerals include olivine, phlogopite, enstatite (hypersthene), and many other trace accessory minerals.
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The term "philippic" comes from the Ancient Greek days when Demosthenes used to get up and yell about how terrible Philip of Macedon was -- and how he always threw his arms around procedure and stall, stall, stalled and then voted no, and wouldn't sit.
Rep. Weiner: Sit!
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Whose _Apothegems_ [qy., those of Demosthenes?] are under consideration on folio 239., from which Mr. Rimbault quotes?
Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850
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As it happens, we know the hierophants who served from the reign of Antoninus Pius to ca. 191: Flavius Leosthenes and Julius Hierophantes.
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They also despatched a messenger to Demosthenes, who had led the Athenian expedition into Aetolia, asking him to be their commander, and sent for twenty Athenian ships which were just then cruising about the Peloponnese under the command of Aristoteles the son of Timocrates, and Hierophon the son of Antimnestus.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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The shape is usually spheroidal, and the material hypersthene (a hard and close-grained bluish granite) or diorite, greenstone-trap blackened by sun and rain.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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Cicero differs from Demosthenes in elevated passages.
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During the first hour I felt pain, but during the rest of the evening pride kindly came to my assistance and from that moment instead of feeling myself little, I grew to a most noble and patagonian [3] nature, from which I could scarcely reduce myself for many days after; and which enabled me at the moment to turn a deaf ear to the contended merits of Demosthenes and Cicero, the Borhavians in medicine, and the &c &c &c &c — and to set and compose verses 'to my Old Oak table', which by the bye is a far better companion to me, as I will make appear, than Dr. A and his son put together.
Letter 115
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Demosthenes, you remember, when he was providing for a certain little company of chorus dancers and musicians, requested to be styled no longer Demosthenes, but "choragus.
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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And therefore in that style or addition, which is and hath been long well received and brought in use, felicis memoriae, piae memoriae, bonae memoriae, we do acknowledge that which Cicero saith, borrowing it from Demosthenes, that bona fama propria possessio defunctorum; which possession I cannot but note that in our times it lieth much waste, and that therein there is a deficience.
The Advancement of Learning
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Plato, Aristotle, Eratosthenes, Posidonius, and all the geometricians of Asia, of Egypt, and of Greece, having acknowledged the sphericity of our globe, how did it happen that we, for so long
A Philosophical Dictionary
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But the idea was popularized three hundred years earlier, by Pythagoras, and it was commonly accepted by the time Eratosthenes showed up.
The world used to be flat.
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But his view was in the minority: the majority were in favour of it, influenced by the opinion of an ephor, Sthenelaïdas, that the Spartans would win.
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Eratosthenes accurately measured the radius of the Earth by determining the minimum angle between the Sun's direction and the vertical at Alexandria on the day of the summer solstice.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers
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Endemic species throughout the region include the endangered Ash-breasted tit-tyrant (Anairetes alpinus); the critically threatened royal cinclodes (Cinclodes aricomae); Berlepsch's canastero (Asthenes berlepschi) classified as vulnerable; line-fronted canastero (Asthenes urubambensis), olivaceous thornbill (Chalcostigma olivaceum), scribble-tailed canastero (Asthenes maculicauda), short-tailed finch (Idiopsar bracyurus), and gray-bellied flower-piercer (Diglosa carbonaria), classified as species of least concern.
Central Andean wet puna
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Nicomedes, who was highly critical of Eratosthenes' mechanical solution, gave a construction which used the conchoid curve which he also used to solve the problem of trisection of an angle.
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Eratosthenes (275-195 B.C.), and author of a periplus and a collection of
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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Such a rite, though probably in fact quite innocent, gave rise to suspicions, of which Demosthenes takes full advantage; and the fact that well-known courtesans (such as Phryne and perhaps Ninus) sometimes organized such 'mysteries' would lend colour to the suspicions.
The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2
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Various mineral localities occur throughout the county, of which some of the most important occur on the shore at Portsoy, as for example the gabbro masses in Portsoy Bay with enstatite, hypersthene and labradorite, the graphic granite with microcline, muscovite and tourmaline at East Head, the chiastolite-schist west of the marble quarry, the mottled serpentine with strings of chrysotile.
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Bronzite is sometimes cut and polished, usually in convex forms, for small ornamental objects, but its use for this purpose is less extensive than that of hypersthene.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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For Darius Demosthenes, 26, who has been living at this facility for six weeks, it is actually the promised macaroni and cheese that will help him most feel at home this Thanksgiving.
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The Johnstown meteorite is classified as a calcium-poor diogenite, being composed mainly of hypersthene, with minor amounts of plagioclase and olivine.
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Eratosthenes of Alexandria used stick shadows to measure its size to within 95 percent accuracy of today's accepted value.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers
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On the west of the second range we have great masses of kyanite or disthene, and on the flanks of the third and fourth a great deal of specular iron ore which is magnetic, and containing a very large percentage of the metal.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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Then Demosthenes rose, and saied: O ye men of Athenes, againste my will, you haue me a counsailer, or pleater of causes before you: but as for a accuser, & calumniator, no, not although ye would.
A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde
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I found, then, that the discreet bearing, the seemly dress, which had distinguished her in the days of her union with the illustrious demesman of Paeania [Footnote: Demosthenes.], were now thrown aside:
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
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How about apatite, apophyllite, axinite, chlorite, hypersthene, scapolite, serpentine, tantalite, and wolframite?
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The true founder of Athenian democracy was probably Cleisthenes, a nobleman at odds with his class.
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Æschines (Adv. Ctesiphon, c. 53) ascribes to Demosthenes the expression ypotetmêtai ta neura tôn pragmatôn, "The sinews of affairs are cut.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
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In another oration of Demosthenes we discover glimpses of what by many has been deemed maritime insurance, or rather of the fraud at present called barratry, which is practised to defraud the insurer: but, as Park in his learned Treatise on Marine Insurance has satisfactorily proved, the ancients were certainly ignorant of maritime insurance; though there can be no doubt frauds similar to those practised at present were practised.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson
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Fragment #38 -- 'Eratosthenes' [1729], Catast.xix. p. 124: The
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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[576: 4] [Greek: kai oute ho panu dunatos en logô tôn en tais ekklêsiais proestôtôn, hetera toutôn erei (oudeis gar huper ton didaskalon) oute ho asthenês en tô logo elattôsei tên paradosin].
The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution
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But there is also in speaking a sort of concealed singing, not like the peroration of rhetoricians from Phrygia or Caria, which is nearly a chant, but that sort which Demosthenes and Aeschines mean when the one reproaches the other with the affected modulation of his voice.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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The plagioclase feldspar weathers to produce a whitish gray rock, while the mafic minerals (olivine, augite and hypersthene) produce contrasting darker grains.
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The estate of Demosthenes' father was almost unique in containing, at his death, no real property save the family house.
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The allegory was used by the cynic Antisthenes, a contemporary of Plato, and Diogenes the Cynic.
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Demosthenes quotes the law of Solon to the effect that — “No woman under sixty years old to enter the house or follow the corpse except those within ἀνεψιαδοῖ (πλὴν ὅσαι ἐντὸς ἀνεψιαδῶν εἰσιν): no woman _at all_ may enter the house after the carrying out of the corpse except _those within_ ἀνεψιαδοῖ.” (
On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay
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Many render [Greek: duocheres] 'inauspicious', 'ill - omened'; but as we do not know exactly what was in Demosthenes 'mind, it is better not to give the word a meaning which it does not bear elsewhere.
The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2
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The great rivers of Asia and Europe, the Volga and Kama, the Don and Borysthenes, the Vistula and Danube, they either swam with their horses or passed on the ice, or traversed in leathern boats, which followed the camp, and transported their wagons and artillery.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
