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  • Him with the feeling of one that loved Him, and to contradict Him, and say, "Be it far from thee, Lord;" or as it is better in the Greek, hileos soi Kurie, ou me estai soi touto, that is, Be propitious to

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842

  • But see Pollux, ib. 65, who apparently read gennaion touto to aploun alla therides; al. Arrian, vi.

    On Hunting 2007

  • Reading with many good MSS. xunepleuse, and epi touto.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • Xenophon wrote oude touto eosin, all apothen ousin antipalous, etc.: ‘while the enemy is still some way off, they turn their companies so as to face him.’

    The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2007

  • Or, 'maintaining that this,' i.e. its destruction, 'was equivalent to its restoration' (kai touto, tên kathairesin, apodosin einai.).

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • He would rather not appear insolent, if he could avoid it (ouch os authadizomenos touto lego).

    The Apology 2006

  • The thing referred to in {touto} is the power of fighting in single combat with many at once, which Demaratos is supposed to have claimed for the whole community of the Spartans.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • The fallacy comes about because ‘this’ (touto) is a common form of several inflections: for ‘this’ signifies sometimes ‘he’ (outos) and sometimes ‘him’

    On Sophistical Refutations 2002

  • Often, then, when ‘this’ (touto) has been granted, people reason as if ‘him’ (touton) had been said: and likewise also they substitute one inflection for another.

    On Sophistical Refutations 2002

  • The fallacy comes about because ‘this’ (touto) is a common form of several inflections: for ‘this’ signifies sometimes ‘he’ (outos) and sometimes ‘him’

    On Sophistical Refutations 2002

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