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  2. List of Classical Greek phrases - Wikipedia

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    The word rhei (ρέι, cf. rheology) is the Greek word for "to stream"; according to Plato's Cratylus, it is related to the etymology of Rhea. πάντοτε ζητεῖν τὴν ἀλήθειαν pántote zeteῖn tḕn alḗtheian "ever seeking the truth" — Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers [24] — a characteristic of ...

  3. Kairos - Wikipedia

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    Kairos (Ancient Greek: καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning 'the right or critical moment'. [1] In modern Greek, kairos also means 'weather' or 'time'. It is one of two words that the ancient Greeks had for 'time'; the other being chronos (χρόνος).

  4. Chariot - Wikipedia

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    The chariot was a fast, light, ... The Greek word for chariot ... 1937 traces the origin of the 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in standard railroad gauge to Roman times, ...

  5. Category:Greek words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. As such almost all article titles should be italicized (with Template:Italic title). Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words.

  6. Phronema - Wikipedia

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    Dormition Fast; Major figures. ... Phronema is a transliteration of the Greek word φρόνημα, ... the word is used four times in Saint Paul's Letter to the ...

  7. Pheidippides - Wikipedia

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    The Greek historian Herodotus was the first person to write about an Athenian runner named Pheidippides participating in the First Persian War. His account is as follows: [10] Before they left the city, the Athenian generals sent off a message to Sparta. The messenger was an Athenian named Pheidippides, a professional long-distance runner.

  8. Helios - Wikipedia

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    By Hellenistic times Apollo had become closely connected with the Sun in cult and Phoebus (Greek Φοῖβος, "bright"), the epithet most commonly given to Apollo, was later applied by Latin poets to the Sun-god Sol. The identification became a commonplace in philosophic and some Orphic texts.

  9. Kai (conjunction) - Wikipedia

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    Kai (και 'and'; Modern Greek:; Ancient Greek:; sometimes abbreviated k) is a word that is a conjunction in Greek, Coptic (ⲕⲁⲓ) and Esperanto (kaj; IPA:).. Kai is the most frequent word in any Greek text and thus used by statisticians to assess authorship of ancient manuscripts based on the number of times it is used.