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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... still unpublished. Whatever yet adhered to the Greek empire in Thrace, Macedonia, and Thessaly, ... church. Cantemir, p. 50—53. Of the Greeks, Ducas alone (c. 13, 15) acknowledges ... to number or array the multitude of Greeks. By his presence, the blockade was ...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
... Their Wars Against The Bulgarians And Greeks.—Weakness And Poverty Of The Latin ... Empire.—Recovery Of Constantinople By The Greeks.—General Consequences Of The Crusades.…
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
... this region has been derived, through the Greek form, aithiopia, from the two words aitho ... Mela that in the eyes of Greek geographers Ethiopia included not only all the ... ; almost everything else is translation from the Greek, Coptic, or Arabic. Most of its ...
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
... the whole, i.e., universal) occurs in the Greek classics, e.g., in Aristotle and Polybius, and ... later date, particularly among African Writers. Among the Greeks it was natural that while Catholic served as ...
Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical notes. Volume I. The History of Creeds. by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... exotic. Homer has three standing names for the Greeks: Danaoi, Argeioi, and Achaioi; also Panthellenes and Panachaioi ... , and the other has nothing characteristic of the Greek system. (b) The Confession of Metrophanes Critopulus, subsequently ...
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
... to other skin diseases commonly designated by the Greek word lepra (psoriasis, etc.), is a chronic infectious ...
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
... Vulgate rendering of Hebrew kopher and Greek lytron which, in the Old Testament ... both original sin and Redemption, some Greek Fathers, like St. Athanasius (De incarnatione ... was buried". The energetic words of the Greek text [Denzinger-Bannwart, n. 86 (47 ...
NPNF1-09. St. Chrysostom: On the Priesthood; Ascetic Treatises; Select Homilies and Letters; Homilies on the Statutes by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... as the greatest pulpit orator of the Greek church. Nor has he any superior or ... the elegance and rhythmic flow of his Greek style, the dramatic vivacity, the quickness and ... reader of a translation or even the Greek original. The living voice and glowing manner ...
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Hortatory Address to the Greeks by justin_martyr
... of the prophets were also written in the Greek character, let him read profane histories, and know ... from Jerusalem, who were acquainted with both the Greek and Hebrew language,…
Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I by Erasmus, Desiderius (c. 1466-1536)
... This Colloquy, entitled, The uneasy Wife: Or, Uxor [Greek: Mempsigamos], treats of many Things that relate to ...