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And in saying of Dolon, hos p e toi eidos men heen kakos, his meaning may perhaps be, not that Dolon's body was deformed, but that his face was ugly, as eneidos is the Cretan word for handsome-faced. Other difficulties may be solved by another punctuation; e.g. in Empedocles, aipsa de thnet ephyonto, ta prin mathon athanata xora te prin kekreto.
Where do you come from?" said my companion, a French officer. They stared uncomprehendingly. He spoke again, this time in Flemish: "Van waar komt gy? Waar gaat gy heen?" The man pointed with his hand vaguely in the direction of the Menin ridge. There followed a conversation of which I could make but little.
He turned again: "Next!" And a black-haired girl began in a higher key, and very slowly: "Yate there eet whoz cawntaint-a too bulloom Heen mo-dest-a teent z-arrayed And there-a heet sprade-a heets swit pre-fume-a Whit-hin thee sy-y-lent-a shade" "Stop! Not that you mistook, but 'tis enough.
I assure you, I have often thought how, if it had been my fate to die in either of those sanguinary contests, my wife Polly would have heen left to mourn the loss of a most excellent husband and father.
From Hoopih province, an appeal is now before the emperor, against a magistrate who tortured a man to death, to extort a confession of homicide; and we have just heard, from Kwang-se province, that on the 24th of the 11th moon, one Netseyuen, belonging to Canton, having received an appointment for his high literary attainments, to the magistracy of a Heen district, in a fit of drunkenness, subjected a young man, on his bridal day, to the torture, because he would not resign the band of music which he had engaged to accompany, according to law and usage, his intended wife to his father's house.
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