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  • Often, men of the lower class of society followed in their fathers 'footsteps. Jesus' father, Joseph, was known to be a "teknon," a Greek word for craftsman, Reddish said.

    News Cathy Wilson 2010

  • Often, men of the lower class of society followed in their fathers 'footsteps. Jesus' father, Joseph, was known to be a "teknon," a Greek word for craftsman, Reddish said.

    News Cathy Wilson 2010

  • Often, men of the lower class of society followed in their fathers 'footsteps. Jesus' father, Joseph, was known to be a "teknon," a Greek word for craftsman, Reddish said.

    News Cathy Wilson 2010

  • Often, men of the lower class of society followed in their fathers 'footsteps. Jesus' father, Joseph, was known to be a "teknon," a Greek word for craftsman, Reddish said.

    News Cathy Wilson 2010

  • Often, men of the lower class of society followed in their fathers 'footsteps. Jesus' father, Joseph, was known to be a "teknon," a Greek word for craftsman, Reddish said.

    News Cathy Wilson 2010

  • That aside, even that subjunctive choice was beat by far by a "kai su, teknon" (imagine that in Greek letters) shirt worn by someone who shall remain nameless unless he feels like naming himself (talk about being mentioned in blogs!)

    CAVE IDVS MARTIAS 2007

  • That aside, even that subjunctive choice was beat by far by a "kai su, teknon" (imagine that in Greek letters) shirt worn by someone who shall remain nameless unless he feels like naming himself (talk about being mentioned in blogs!)

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • And his last words are reported not as the Shakespearean "et tu, Brute?" but as "kai su, teknon?" or "you as well, my son?"

    Chickpea Walter Jon Williams 2007

  • My Oxford Dictionary of Quotations gives "Et tu, Brute?" as "oral tradition," and "Kai su, teknon" as originating with Suetonius.

    Chickpea Walter Jon Williams 2007

  • His ancient biographers, Plutarch and Suetonius, both claim -- imaginatively I would guess – that he said “kai su, teknon?” or “You too, child?”

    Et tu Brute? 2006

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