Taken to its worst extreme, food-based clientelism could force hungry citizens to behave like suppliant, sycophantic subjects.
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Shooting it frontally, Greene looked up at the timeworn face from the subordinate vantage point of a suppliant.
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For some, his fawning tone with Trump was forgivable as it likely reflected how a lot of national leaders —especially those in a suppliant position like Ukraine's — talk to Trump.
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Though his Evan is no carbon copy of his predecessors in the role, he shares many pathetic mannerisms with them: the twitchy picking at himself, the cul-de-sac speech patterns, the upturned, outstretched, suppliant right hand.
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Several Democrats said the model he needed to avoid was the 1980 primary fight between President Jimmy Carter and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, with its awkward spectacle at the nominating convention that made the party look divided and Mr. Carter seem suppliant.
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The first reference to democratic assembly voting procedure occurs in Aeschylus' early tragedy "The Suppliant Maidens," from 470 B.C.E. But ancient tragedy is not just a celebration or vindication of democracy or Athenian glory (although Athens does come off quite well in some of the plays).
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In normal times on August 15, the Feast of the Assumption, every Marie in France — there are hundreds of thousands of them, mostly pretty, or have been pretty — is fairly certain to receive a bouquet, or a flowering plant in blossom, or a humble little nosegay, from some relative, or suppliant, or friend.
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Word of the Day adjective: humbly entreating noun: one praying humbly for something _________ The word suppliant has appeared in four New York Times articles in the past 10 years, including on May 22, 2008 in "Obama Declares Nomination Is 'Within Reach'" by Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny: But most immediately, Mr. Obama faces the task of bringing the party back together, and finding the right tone to strike in being deferential to Mrs.
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The Logos is an ambassador and suppliant, neither unbegotten nor begotten as are sensible things.
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The Suppliants (, Hiketides; Latin Supplices), also called The Suppliant Women, first performed in 423 BC, is an ancient Greek play by Euripides.
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Thou wilt not be able, when thy children fall suppliant at thy feet, to imbrue thy savage hand in their wretched life-blood.
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In Greek mythology, Parthenopeus or Parthenopaeus (; Ancient Greek: Παρθενοπαῖος, Parthenopaîos) was one of the Seven against Thebes, a native of Arcadia,Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1154 described as young and outstandingly good-looking,Euripides, Suppliant Women, 889Hyginus, Fabulae, 270 but at the same time arrogant, ruthless and over-confident,Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 526 - 538 although an unproblematic ally for the Argives.Euripides, Suppliant Women, 890 ff.
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60 from Smyth, Herbert Weir (translator); Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. in Volume 2. Suppliant Women.
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I am reminded of the old colored man who went to heaven's gate and asked for admittance. 'Are you afoot or horseback,' asked St. Peter. 'I'm afoot.' said the suppliant. 'Then you can't come in,' said the doorkeeper.
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The Suppliants (, Hiketides; Latin: Supplices), also called The Suppliant Maidens, The Suppliant Women, or Supplices is a play by Aeschylus. It was probably first performed "only a few years previous to the Orestea, which was brought out 458 BC." It seems to be the first play in a tetralogy, sometimes referred to as the Danaid Tetralogy, which probably included the lost plays The Egyptians (also called Aigyptioi), and The Daughters of Danaus (also called The Danaïdes or The Danaids), and the satyr play Amymone.The 1952 publication of Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2256 fr. 3 confirmed the existence of a trilogy, probably produced in 463.
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The Gemara deduced from Moses's example in that one should seek a suppliant frame of mind before praying. Rav Huna and Rav Hisda were discussing how long to wait between recitations of the Amidah if one erred in the first reciting and needed to repeat the prayer. One said: long enough for the person praying to fall into a suppliant frame of mind, citing the words "And I supplicated the Lord" in The other said: long enough to fall into an interceding frame of mind, citing the words "And Moses interceded" in Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 30b. Babylonia, 6th century.
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Aeschylus wrote in The Eumenides that Hermes helped Orestes kill Clytemnestra under a false identity and other stratagems, and also said that he was the god of searches, and those who seek things lost or stolen.Aeschylus, Suppliant Women 919. Quoted in God of Searchers. The Theoi Project: Greek Mythology.
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Bibliotheke, iii.10.1, iii.12.1 and 3. Whether Elektra had come to Athena's shrine of the Palladium as a pregnant suppliant and a god cast it into the territory of Ilium, because it had been profaned by the hands of a woman who was not a virgin,Bibliotheke iii.145.
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Epaphus was the son of ZeusHesiod, Ehoiai 40a as cited in Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1358 fr. 2 and IoPseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.3Hyginus, Fabulae 155Aeschylus, Suppliant Women 48Euripides, Phoenissae 678Euripides, Oedipus 1.638–689Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3.284–285Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.747–748 and thus, Ceroessa's brotherNonnus, Dionysiaca 32.70. With his wife, MemphisPseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.
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Amasa Stone expected the much younger Rockefeller to be deferential and suppliant, but he was not. Stone angrily opposed the loan during a bank board of directors meeting. After Rockefeller made his case to the board, Stone suggested that Payne and Witt arbitrate the dispute. The two officers voted to support Rockefeller.
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There is a Greek inscription at the top, translated variously. Translated as "Receive this suppliant, despite his sinfulness", it might be an expression of humility on the part of Justinian. Interpreted as the beginning of an inscription that continues on the lost second panel, it may read, "Receive these gifts, and having learned the cause...".
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Gelanor welcomed Danaus and his daughters when they tried to escape Aegyptus and his sons. When an oracle told Gelanor to give Danaus his kingdom, he did so. He wanted to sell the Danaïdes into slavery following their murder of their husbands, but Danaus and the gods dissuaded him. He is simply called the "king" in Aeschylus's Suppliant Maidens.
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The name/word Epaphus means "Touch". This refers to the manner in which he was conceived, by the touch of Zeus' hand.Aeschylus, Suppliant Women 315Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 850–852 He was born in Euboea, in the cave BoösauleStrabo, Geographica 10.1.3 or according to others, in Egypt, on the river NileHyginus, Fabulae 145, after the long wanderings of his mother.
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Epaphus is regarded in the myths as the founder of Memphis, Egypt.Hyginus, Fabulae 149 & 275 Hera being envious that her husband's bastard ruled such a great kingdomStatius, Thebaid 7.186, saw to it that Epaphus should be killed while hunting.Hyginus, Fabulae 150Aeschylus, Suppliant Women 586-587 David Rohl identifies Epaphus with the Hyksos pharaoh Apophis.David Rohl: The Lords of Avaris.
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He was defeated and fled to Phraates. Because of all this, Tigranes did not want to fight any more when Pompey got near Artaxata. The young Tigranes took refuge with Pompey as a suppliant with the approval of Phraates, who wanted Pompey's friendship. The elder Tigranes submitted his affairs to Pompey's decision and made complaint against his son.
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The production opened at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre in March 2019. Its 2020 transfer to the Old Vic in London was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Greig took over from Mark Thomson as Artistic Director of Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre in 2016. He adapted Aeschylus' The Suppliant Women for the Lyceum in October 2016.
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In Greek mythology, Palaechthon or Palaichthon (Ancient Greek: Παλαίχθονος Palaikhthon means "ancient earth") was the son of Gaea (Earth) and the father of Pelasgus, king of Argos, who gave his name to the race of the Pelasgoi (Pelasgians).Aeschylus, Suppliant Women 340 ff He may also be a king of Argos when taking into account the sovereignty of his son.
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Robert Graves in The Greek Myths rev. ed. 1960 suggested a translation "bearing darts". or "Belleron", a ruler of the Corinthians (though the details are never directly told), and in expiation of his crime arrived as a suppliant to Proetus, king in Tiryns, one of the Mycenaean strongholds of the Argolid. Proetus, by virtue of his kingship, cleansed Bellerophon of his crime.
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Stone's association with Standard Oil did not last past mid-1872. The break came when Rockefeller approached the Second National Bank, of which Stone was a director, for a major loan in early 1872. Stone expected the much younger Rockefeller to be deferential and suppliant, but he was not. Stone angrily opposed the loan during a bank board of directors meeting.
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Cults dedicated to Peitho date to at least the early 5th century. In her role as an attendant or companion of Aphrodite, Peitho was intimately connected to the goddess of love and beauty. Aphrodite and Peitho were sometimes conflated, more commonly in the later periods, with the name Peitho appearing in conjunction with or as an epithet of Aphrodite's name. She is also identified with Tyche in Suppliant Women (Hiketides).
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Erichtho was popularized by the Roman poet Lucan in his epic poem Pharsalia. In Lucan's Pharsalia, Erichtho is repugnant (for instance, she is described as having a "dry cloud" hang over her head and that her breath "poisons otherwise non-lethal air"), and wicked to the point of sacrilege (e.g. "She never beseeches the gods, nor does she call the divine with a suppliant hymn").Lucan, Pharsalia, 6.523-524.
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Theseus leads Creon away to retake the two girls. The Athenians overpower the Thebans and return both girls to Oedipus. Oedipus moves to kiss Theseus in gratitude, then draws back, acknowledging that he is still polluted. Theseus then informs Oedipus that a suppliant has come to the temple of Poseidon and wishes to speak with him; it is Oedipus's son Polynices, who has been banished from Thebes by his brother Eteocles.
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Thy sleep > perpetual bursts the vivid folds by which the soul, attracting body holds: > common to all, of ev'ry sex and age, for nought escapes thy all-destructive > rage. Not youth itself thy clemency can gain, vigorous and strong, by thee > untimely slain. In thee the end of nature’s works is known, in thee all > judgment is absolved alone. No suppliant arts thy dreadful rage controul, no > vows revoke the purpose of thy soul.
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Moved by her tears and arguments, Theseus agrees to intervene, but only if the Athenian citizens endorse his decision. Confident that the people will support him, he and his mother set out for home, followed by Adrastus and the sons of the slain warriors, while the suppliant women pray that Theseus will prevail. Some time later Theseus returns with a retinue. He dispatches his herald to Thebes to request the release of the bodies.
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Cioroianu, p. 220 Several suppliant members of the Communist Party's Central Committee, down to the Romanian Revolution of 1989, and including Levente and Gheorghe Mihoc, had been activists in the original UP.Florica Dobre, Liviu Marius Bejenaru, Clara Cosmineanu-Mareș, Monica Grigore, Alina Ilinca, Oana Ionel, Nicoleta Ionescu- Gură, Elisabeta Neagoe-Pleșa, Liviu Pleșa, Membrii C.C. al P.C.R. (1945–1989). Dicționar, Editura Enciclopedică, Bucharest, 2004, pp. 87, 200–201, 362, 394, 417, 465.
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Clotilde's cult made her the patron of queens, widows, brides and those in exile. In Normandy especially she was venerated as the patroness of the lame, those who came to a violent death and women who suffered from ill-tempered husbands. In art she is often depicted presiding over the baptism of Clovis, or as a suppliant at the shrine of Saint Martin. Several fine images of her remain, particularly in the 16th century stained glass window at Andelys.
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In 1815–1816 Cousin attained the position of suppliant (assistant) to Royer-Collard in the history of modern philosophy chair of the faculty of letters. Another thinker who influenced him at this early period was Maine de Biran, whom Cousin regarded as the unequalled psychological observer of his time in France. These men strongly influenced Cousin's philosophical thought. To Laromiguière he attributes the lesson of decomposing thought, even though the reduction of it to sensation was inadequate.
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Cenozoic sand dune systems are locally being mined for mineral sands, mainly rutile (a source of titanium ) and zircon, by Iluka Resources and other companies. Various formations from Cenozoic to Jurassic age are economically significant freshwater aquifers. Younger aquifers are an important suppliant to reservoir water in the city of Perth and elsewhere. The Yarragadee Formation, one of the thickest formations in the basin, is a very good aquifer in the southern part of the basin.
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The Dervish then cast some pebbles, read them (divination) as falling good, a priest sacrificed a ram outside the grave site, with the blood of the ram used to anoint the forehead of the suppliant. Finally, Evans was instructed to give something to attach to the pillar overnight, and he himself resides with the stone and his guide, lighting candles after sunset and eating the sacrificial ram.Evans, A. 1901. Mycenean Tree and Pillar Cult and its Mediterranean Relations.
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Aeschylus, Suppliant Women (Hiketides), Line 523. Peitho was associated with marriage, since a suitor or his father would negotiate with the father or guardian of a young woman for her hand in marriage and offer a bridal price in return for her. The most desirable women drew many prospective suitors, and persuasive skill often determined the suitor's success. Plutarch includes her on a list of five deities for new couples to pray to, also included are Zeus (Teleios), Hera (Teleia), Aphrodite, and Artemis.
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Gantz, pp. 607-608. According to Plutarch, a location on Euboea was referred to as "the Young Men's Club" because when Nauplius came to Chalcis as a suppliant, both being prosecuted by the Achaeans and charging against them, the city's people provided him with a guard of young men, which was stationed at this place.Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, 33. According to Apollodorus, the setting of false beacon fires was a habit of Nauplius, and he himself died in the same way.
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8; cf. i.20 The Rex Sacrificulus or Rex Sacrorum alone was entitled to recline above him at a banquet; if one in bonds took refuge in his house, the chains were immediately struck off and conveyed through the impluvium to the roof, and thence cast down into the street:Aul. Gell. x.15 if a criminal on his way to punishment met him, and fell suppliant at his feet, he was respited for that day,Aul. Gell. x.15; Plut.
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Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985, p. 152 Another way in which the servus callidus asserts his power over the play—specifically the other characters in the play—is through his use of the imperative mood. This type of language is used, according to E. Segal, for "the forceful inversion, the reduction of the master to an abject position of supplication ... the master-as-suppliant is thus an extremely important feature of the Plautine comic finale".
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Some proposed to punish him, but the elder citizens convinced the Assembly that it would be a sacrilege to execute a suppliant. The Syracusans exiled Ducetius to Corinth and provided him with sufficient financial resources to support himself. After spending some time in Corinth Ducetius broke the agreement and sailed back to Sicily with colonists to found Cale Acte. This angered the Acragantines, who were envious of Syracusans and accused them of releasing their common enemy without having consulted them first.
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In 450 BC Ducetius was decisively defeated by Syracuse in the Battle of Nomae and by Acragas at Motyum. Fearing that he would be slain by his own people, he fled to Syracuse in a desperate attempt to save himself. At night he entered the city's marketplace and seated himself at the altars of the gods to become a suppliant who was entitled to sanctuary. The Syracusans were amazed and magistrates called a meeting of the Assembly to determine how he should be dealt with.
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Over the ample seat in the centre, with a high reredos, two great wings spread off from the central division. All was white marble and jade, liberally sculptured according to the canons of Chinese art. Along the top lay and leered dragons, each one "swinging the scaly horror of his folded tail" toward the central seat, his head projecting outward in the air. Below the throne were the three steps, on the broad second one of which the suppliant performed the nine prostrations or knocks of the head.
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Greeks also used other descriptive phrases for them. Herodotus used the Androktones (, singular , ') ("killers/slayers of men") and Androleteirai (, singular , ') ("destroyers of men, murderesses"), in the Iliad they are also called Antianeirai (, singular , ') ("equivalent to men") and Aeschylus used the Styganor () ("those who loathe all men") in his work Prometheus Bound and in the Suppliant Maidens he called them "...τὰς ἀνάνδρους κρεοβόρους τ᾽ Ἀμαζόνας" ("the unwed, flesh-devouring Amazons"). In Hippolytus play, Phaedra calls Hippolytus, "the son of the horse-loving Amazon" (). Nonnus at Dionysiaca call the Amazons of Dionysus, Androphonus () ("men slaying").
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In Aeschylus' play The SuppliantsAeschylus, Suppliant Women (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.)I am Pelasgus, offspring of Palaechthon, whom the earth brought forth, and lord of this land; and after me, their king, is rightly named the race of the Pelasgi, who harvest the land.Of all the region through which the pure Strymon flows, on the side toward the setting sun, I am the lord.There lies within the limits of my rule the land of the Perrhaebi, the parts beyond Pindus close to the Paeonians, and the mountain ridge of Dodona; the edge of the watery sea borders my kingdom.
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The monument was the subject of contemporary critical acclaim, but St Peter's Church, Bournemouth, where Mary Shelley was buried, refused to take the work, and it was installed instead in Christchurch Priory. () Manufactures group, one of four surrounding the central canopy of the Albert Memorial, London Unlike Chantrey, Weekes executed a few ideal figures from 1850 onwards. The Suppliant (1850), his earliest work in this genre, secured his election as an associate of the Royal Academy. Resting after a Run, also known as Girl with the Hoop (1850/1), depicts the daughter of Frederick J. Reed in an idealised picture of childhood.
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Growing over the grave is a thorn tree, which has rags and fabric hanging from it placed there by the sick seeking divine cures. The water is poured into a hole in the center of the grave, mixed with grave-dirt, and then the suppliant drinks this mixture three times, then anoints their head three times. Then a circumambulation around the grave is started, with three passes, each time kissing and touching with the forehead "the stone at the head and foot of it". Afterwards, grave dust was given to Evans, to be made up into a triangular amulet.
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Fortunately for Deiotarus, Julius Caesar at that time (47 BC) arrived in Asia from Egypt, and was met by the tetrarch in the dress of a suppliant. Caesar pardoned him for having sided with Pompey, ordered him to resume his royal attire, and hastened against Pharnaces, whom he defeated at Zela. In consequence of the complaints of certain Galatian princes, Deiotarus was deprived of part of his dominions in 47 BC, but was pardoned by Caesar and allowed to retain the title of King. On the death of Mithridates of Pergamum, Tetrarch of the Trocmi, Deiotarus was a candidate for the vacancy.
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She arrives just in time to be given a job as a laundress by Polly Elizabeth. Here we learn that Mauser has been suffering from debilitating convulsions and sickness that has left him unable to even manage his own house. This soon changes as Fleur begins to treat Mauser, not out of kindness, but because she wants him to suffer at her hands, not at the mercy of a disease. Once Mauser is healthy, she sneaks into his room to kill him, but takes pity on the suppliant Mauser, and the two enter into a sexual relationship.
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The duchy was quickly overrun, and the duke compelled to agree to the treaty of Heilbronn in January 1547. By this treaty Charles, ignoring the desire of Ferdinand to depose Ulrich again, allowed him to retain his duchy, but stipulated that he should pay a large sum of money, surrender certain fortresses, and appear as a suppliant before the emperor at Ulm. Having submitted under compulsion to the Interim issued from Augsburg in May 1548, Ulrich died on 6 November 1550 at Tübingen, where he was buried. He left a son, Christopher (1515–1568), who succeeded him.
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In 2007 Morwood revisited Euripides with a new scholarly edition of Suppliant Women. In her review, Aurelie Wach of Université Lille contrasts this work with the rival edition from Christopher Collard (1975) which Morwood himself describes as "magnificent" in his introduction: > Morwood's work does not compete with Collard's: not only does he refer to > recent studies which have made discussion about the play still richer over > the last thirty years, but, more importantly, he has neither the same aim, > nor does he have the same audience in mind. His book is a lot more > accessible, and less technical, but also less comprehensive in its approach. > . . .
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Another offering on this occasion was the eiresione - εἰρεσιώνη (also referred to as eiresin). This was a branch of olive or laurel, bound with purple or white wool, round which were hung various fruits of the season, pastries, and small jars of honey, oil and wine. It was intended as a thank-offering for blessings received, and at the same time as a prayer for similar blessings and protection against evil in future; hence, it was called a suppliant branch (εἶρος). The name is usually derived from ἔριον "wool" in reference to the woolen bands, but some connect it with εἰρ-/ἐρ- "speak" (cf.
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" Shelley does not profess to know why Intellectual Beauty, which he calls "unknown and awful," is an inconstant visitor, but he is convinced that if it kept "with [its] glorious train firm state" within man's heart, man would be "immortal and omnipotent." But since the Spirit of Beauty visits the world and man's heart with such irregularity, Shelley pleads with his deity rather than praises it. It remains remote and inaccessible. In the concluding stanza Shelley is a suppliant praying that the power of the Spirit of Beauty will continue to supply its calm "to one who worships thee, / And every form containing thee.
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He claimed that the Cretans had stolen some of the gold plate of Alexander and implored them to exchange it for money. He was playing Cretan against Cretan and those who gave it back to him were cheated. He paid less money than he promised and got the money from his friends. He then sailed to the island of Samothrace where he took refuge as a suppliant in the temple of the Dioscuri, which was a sanctuary.Plutarch, Parallel Lives, The Life of Aemilius, 23.9-10 Perseus’ ambassadors reached Aemilius who, thinking that he was in Amphipolis, sent Nasica there with a detachment to obstruct the king.
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However, to save Strephon from losing his love, Iolanthe resolves to present his case to the Lord Chancellor while veiled ("My lord, a suppliant at your feet"). Although the Lord Chancellor is moved by her appeal, which evokes the memory of his wife, he declares that he himself will marry Phyllis. Desperate, Iolanthe unveils, ignoring the warnings of the unseen Fairies, revealing that she is his long-lost wife, and Strephon is his son. The Lord Chancellor is amazed to see her alive, but Iolanthe has again broken fairy law, and the Fairy Queen is now left with no choice but to punish Iolanthe with death ("It may not be ... Once again thy vow is broken").
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The Alcmaeonidae or Alcmaeonids () were a powerful noble family of ancient Athens, a branch of the Neleides who claimed descent from the mythological Alcmaeon, the great-grandson of Nestor. __NOTOC__ The first notable Alcmaeonid was Megacles, who was the Archon Eponymous of Athens in the 7th century BC. He was responsible for killing the followers of Cylon of Athens during the attempted coup of 632 BC, as Cylon had taken refuge as a suppliant at the temple of Athena. As a result of their actions, Megacles and his Alcmaeonid followers were the subject of an ongoing curse and were exiled from the city. Even the bodies of buried Alcmaeonidae were dug up and removed from the city limits.
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The Golden Calf (illustration from the 1890 Holman Bible) The Gemara deduced from the example of Moses in that one should seek an interceding frame of mind before praying. Rav Huna and Rav Hisda were discussing how long to wait between recitations of the Amidah prayer if one erred in the first reciting and needed to repeat the prayer. One said: long enough for the person praying to fall into a suppliant frame of mind, citing the words "And I supplicated the Lord" in The other said: long enough to fall into an interceding frame of mind, citing the words "And Moses interceded" in Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 30b. A Midrash compared Noah to Moses and found Moses superior.
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A "repentant" ex-member reported that Hattab was killed by members of his own organization in summer 2003.Hassan Hattab a été exécuté par ses lieutenants, l'Expression, 11 May 2004 However, his successor, the then GSPC leader Sahraoubi reported that Hattab had resigned "of his own accord". On 9 February 2005, the GSPC announced that it had excluded Hattab entirely from the group and saw him as a "stranger to jihad" and a "suppliant before tyranny", according to El Watan, thus further suggesting that previous rumors of his death were incorrect.Hassan Hattab exclu du GSPC, Algeria-Watch, 13 February 2005 In March, he was reported to have called for the GSPC to end their fight.
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Trouble arose, however, when the corruption of Valens' local ministers came into play. Incapable of resisting the temptation presented by a multitude of desperate, suppliant, and increasingly famished victims, Valens' ministers shamelessly extorted from the Goths their property and even the persons of their wives and daughters, in return for the bare means of subsistence, which Valens had engaged to supply with a liberal hand. At the same time, they failed to disarm the Goths as intended, and their camp on the Danube was soon filled with the noise of war. Increasingly alarmed, Valens' generals resolved to disperse the Goths throughout the provinces, and gave orders for Fritigern, their leader, to march to Marcianopolis, where the respective places for each colony would be assigned.
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He took part in the French expeditions of 1874, accompanied by Jules Janssen, to Japan,1874 December 9, Venustransit, by Steven van Roode and in 1882, accompanied by Guillaume Bigourdan, to Martinique1882 December 6, Venustransit, by Steven van Roode to observe the transits of Venus. In 1878 he was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences in succession to Le Verrier, and became a member of the Bureau des Longitudes. In the same year he was appointed professeur suppliant to Liouville, and in 1883 he succeeded Puiseux in the chair of celestial mechanics at the Sorbonne. Tisserand always found time to continue his important researches in mathematical astronomy, and the pages of the Comptes rendus bear witness to his activity.
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First edition The Robot Who Looked Like Me is a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley. It was first published in 1978 by Sphere Books. As with much of Sheckley's work in general, many of the stories are satirical and express the writer's criticism of modern American society. It includes the following stories (magazines in which the stories originally appeared given in parentheses): # "The Robot Who Looked Like Me" (Cosmopolitan, 1973) A man builds a robot version of himself to free-up extra spare time. # "Slaves of Time" (Nova 4, 1974) # "Voices" (Playboy, Oct 1973) # "A Supplicant in Space" (Galaxy, Nov 1973, as "A Suppliant in Space".) # "Zirn Left Unguarded, The Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerly Dead" (Nova 2, 1972) A status report from a military outpost in space.
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Pache was born in Verdun, but grew up in Paris, of Swiss parentage, the son of the concièrge of the hotel of Marshal de Castries. He became tutor to the marshal's children, and subsequently first secretary at the ministry of marine, head of supplies (munitionnaire général des vivres), and comptroller of the king's household. After spending several years in Switzerland with his family, he returned to France at the beginning of the Revolution. He was employed successively at the ministries of the interior and of war, and was appointed on 20 September 1793 third deputy suppliant of Paris by the Luxembourg section. Thus brought into notice, he was made minister of war on 3 October 1792John W. Fortescue, A History of the British Army, vol. IV, part I, London, Macmillan, 1915, p.
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Statue of Selene, shown wearing the crescent on her forehead and holding a torch in her right hand, while her veil billows over her head Like her brother Helios, the Sun god, who drives his sun chariot across the sky each day, Selene is also said to drive a chariot across the heavens.Pindar, Olympian 3.19–20; Euripides, The Suppliant Women, 990–991; Theocritus, Idyll 2.163 ff.; Ovid, Fasti 4.373–374, 3.109–110, Metamorphoses 2. 208 ff; Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.408 ff.; Statius, Thebaid 1. 336 ff. The Hymn to Selene, provides a description: The earliest known depiction of Selene driving a chariot is inside an early 5th century BC red-figure cup attributed to the Brygos Painter, showing Selene plunging her chariot, drawn by two winged horses, into the sea.Cohen, pp. 156–157, 177–179.
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According to some stories, Zeus then turned Io into a heifer (a cow) in order to hide her from his wife; others maintain that Hera herself transformed Io.Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, 291 In the version of the story in which Zeus transformed Io, the deception failed, and Hera begged Zeus to give her the heifer as a present, which, having no reason to refuse, he did. Hera then sent Argus Panoptes, a giant who had 100 eyes, to watch Io and prevent Zeus from visiting her, and so Zeus sent Hermes to distract and eventually slay Argus. According to Ovid, he did so by first lulling him to sleep by playing the panpipes and telling stories.Ovid, Metamorphoses, I.650-730 Zeus freed Io, still in the form of a heifer.
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From 2011 - 2018 Ramin was Artistic Director of ATC Theatre for whom he directed The Golden Dragon by Roland Schimmelpfennig, which saw 110 performances worldwide including India and Northern Iraq, the first major revival of Crave by Sarah Kane and a new Russian play, Illusions by Ivan Vyrypaev, and the British premiere of Marius von Mayenburg's Martyr. Ramin commissioned and directed David Greig's The Events, which was voted by critics in The Guardian as the 'Best Play of 2013'. Co-produced with the Young Vic, Schauspielhaus Wien and Brageteatret Norway, Gray also directed the Norwegian and Austrian productions of The Events. In 2016/7 Ramin's critically acclaimed production of Aeschylus' The Suppliant Women opened at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh and toured the UK, Ireland and Hong Kong.
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Asquith wanted Lloyd George to make the first move but although the latter put out feelers to senior Asquith supporters he insisted that he was "neither a suppliant nor a penitent". M.S.R. Kinnear writes that Asquith felt that with Lloyd George's faction declining in strength he had everything to gain by waiting, while too quick an approach would antagonise the Labour leaders who hated Lloyd George and whose support he might need for a future Lib-Lab coalition. Kinnear also argues that Asquith's "gloating" over the defeat of Coalition Liberals in 1922 is evidence that "the most important factor influencing Asquith against quick reunion was his personal dislike of Lloyd George and his desire for vengeance." The political situation was transformed when Baldwin, now Prime Minister, came out in favour of Protection at Plymouth on 22 October 1923.
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Josephus quotes two documents: Onias' letter to the royal couple, and the king's answer to Onias.Ant. xiii.1-2 Both of these, however, appear spurious, on the following grounds: Onias refers in his letter to his military exploits in Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, although it is not certain that the general Onias and the priest Onias are identical. His assertion that a central sanctuary is necessary because a multiplicity of temples causes dissension among the Jews evidences imperfect knowledge of the Jewish religious life; and, finally, his request for the ruined temple of the goddess Bubastis, because a sufficient supply of wood and sacrificial animals would be found there, seems unwise and improbable for a suppliant who must first obtain compliance with his principal request. It seems strange, furthermore, that in the second letter the pagan king points out to the Jewish priest that the proposed building of a temple is contrary to the law, and that he consents only in view of Isaiah's prophecy.
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But Constantinus — for it must needs be that evil befall him — > always lightly evaded the charge and taunted the wronged man. But on one > occasion Presidius met Belisarius riding on horseback in the forum, and he > laid hold of the horse's bridle, and crying out with a loud voice asked > whether the laws of the emperor said that, whenever anyone fleeing from the > barbarians comes to them as a suppliant, they should rob him by violence of > whatever he may chance to have in his hands. And though many men gathered > about and commanded him with threats to let go his hold of the bridle, he > did not let go until at last Belisarius promised to give him the daggers. On > the following day, therefore, Belisarius called Constantinus and many of the > commanders to an apartment in the palace, and after going over what had > happened on the previous day urged him even at that late time to restore the > daggers.
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By his pride and luxury the Christian religion was rendered odious > in the eyes of the Gentiles. His council chamber and his throne, the > splendour with which he appeared in public, the suppliant crowd who > solicited his attention, the multitude of letters and petitions to which he > dictated his answers, and the perpetual hurry of business in which he was > involved, were circumstances much better suited to the state of a civil > magistrate than to the humility of a primitive bishop. When he harangued his > people from the pulpit, Paul affected the figurative style and the > theatrical gestures of an Asiatic sophist, while the cathedral resounded > with the loudest and most extravagant acclamations in the praise of his > divine eloquence. Against those who resisted his power, or refused to > flatter his vanity, the prelate of Antioch was arrogant, rigid, and > inexorable; but he relaxed the discipline, and lavished the treasures of the > church on his dependent clergy, who were permitted to imitate their master > in the gratification of every sensual appetite.
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