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  • For example, the work "Mappae Clavicula" (little key to the table) may be a mistranslation of Baphes kleis (Key to tinting) via latinization as Baphae clavicula and alteration of Baphae to Mappae by a scribe.

    Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it 2010

  • Now ‘justice’ and ‘injustice’ seem to be ambiguous, but because their different meanings approach near to one another the ambiguity escapes notice and is not obvious as it is, comparatively, when the meanings are far apart, e.g. (for here the difference in outward form is great) as the ambiguity in the use of kleis for the collar-bone of an animal and for that with which we lock a door.

    The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002

  • * [1047] Houtos estin hē pros ton Patera agousa hodos, hē petra, hē kleis, ho poimēn

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • Houtos estin hē pros ton Patera agousa hodos, hē petra, hē kleis, ho poimēn,

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • Now 'justice' and 'injustice' seem to be ambiguous, but because their different meanings approach near to one another the ambiguity escapes notice and is not obvious as it is, comparatively, when the meanings are far apart, e.g. (for here the difference in outward form is great) as the ambiguity in the use of kleis for the collar-bone of an animal and for that with which we lock a door.

    The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS Aristotle 1865

  • ... othi kleis apoergei aukhena te stethos te, malista de kairion estin.

    On Horsemanship 2007

  • {... othi kleis apoergei aukhena te stethos te, malista de kairion estin.} "W.ere the collar-bone fenceth off neck and breast, and where is the most deadly spot" (W. Leaf).

    On Horsemanship 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • * [7430] Houtos estin hē pros ton Patera agousa hodos, hē petra, ho phragmos, hē kleis, ho poimēn, to hiereion, hē thura tēs gnōseōs di’ hēs eisēlthon Abraam kai Isaak kai Iakōb, Mōsēs, kai ho sumpas tōn prophētōn choros, kai hoi stuloi tou kosmou hoi apostoloi kai hē numphē tou

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • * Houtos estin hē pros ton Patera agousa hodos, hē petra, ho phragmos, hē kleis, ho poimēn, to hiereion, hē thura tēs gnōseōs di’ hēs eisēlthon

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • * [7245] Houtos estin hē pros ton Patera agousa hodos, hē petra, ho phragmos, hē kleis, ho poimēn, to hiereion, hē thura tēs gnōseōs di’ hēs eisēlthon Abraam kai Isaak kai Iakōb, Mōsēs, kai ho sumpas tōn prophētōn choros, kai hoi stuloi tou kosmou hoi apostoloi kai hē numphē tou

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

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