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  • Cobet, theos ousa, transl. “by sanction of her divinity.”

    Oeconomicus 2007

  • He pason apodeixeon echenguotera, mallon d ', he mone apodeixis ousa tunchanei.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • * Estin a'ra e arete ` e'xis proairetike 'en meso'teti ousa te pros emas orismene lo'go kai ` os a'n o phro'nimos oriseien meso'tes de du'o kakion tes me ` n kath' uperbole ` n tes de 'kat' elleipsin:

    The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910

  • [Greek: _metabolê tis tugchanei ousa kai metoikêois tê psuchê ton topon tou enthende eis allon tochon_], then

    The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

  • [15] Reading {thelousa}, vulg., or if after Cobet, {theos ousa}, transl. "by sanction of her divinity."

    The Economist 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • [14] Reading {kratiste ousa}, or if with Heindorf, {kratisteusai}, transl. "to prove himself the best."

    The Economist 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • _Vandal. _ speaking of the same _Constantine_, saith: Constantine _being overcome in battle, was slain with his children: _ [Greek: Bretannian men toi Rômaioi anasôsasthai ouketi echon; all 'ousa hypo tyrannous ap' autou emene.] _Yet the _Romans_ could not recover _Britain_ any more, but from that time it remained under Tyrants_.

    Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684

  • * pneuma ... analogon ousa to ton astron stoichei& 251;: [2414] 1

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • IV?) de Trin. treats the hymn, flames and dew in the furnace, mia kaminos ousa, as an emblem of the Three in One.

    The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study. 1906

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