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- noun The
Pontic Greek dialect of the historicalPontus region ofAsia Minor .
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One such example is a Pontian song depicting voluntary sacrifice.
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This ecoregion is mostly equivalent to the lowland and montane Black Sea deciduous mixed forests found on the Pontian uplands.
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I have postulated that Pontian flora and fauna were contemporaneous with the Mediterranean flood.
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Ramapithecus, that enigmatic and fascinating hominid of many aliases, is placed as late as the Pontian by virtue of a jaw described in 1972 by G.H. R. von Koenigswald, to which he gave the name Graecopithecus freybergi.
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The climate, geography, vegetation, and animal life of Pontian times are essentially as set forth in the novel-but geologists and paleobiologists will be quick to detect a few fudgings that I hope can be forgiven in the spirit of good fun.
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After he had delivered, with floods of tears, a speech in praise of Tiberius, and buried him with the utmost pomp, he immediately hastened over to Pandataria and the Pontian islands [398], to bring thence the ashes of his mother and brother; and, to testify the great regard he had for their memory, he performed the voyage in a very tempestuous season.
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After he had delivered, with floods of tears, a speech in praise of Tiberius, and buried him with the utmost pomp, he immediately hastened over to Pandataria and the Pontian islands [398], to bring thence the ashes of his mother and brother; and, to testify the great regard he had for their memory, he performed the voyage in a very tempestuous season.
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Finally, at a much later period, under Pontian of Rome and Zebinus of Antioch (Eusebius, VI, xxiii), he journeyed into Greece, passing through Caesarea where Theoctistus,
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It is related in these Acts that their bodies were buried by a subdeacon, Quirinus, and transferred in the reign of Constantine to the Pontian cemetery on the road to Porto, near the gates of Rome.
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How much longer Pontian endured the sufferings of exile and harsh treatment in the Sardinian mines is unknown.
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