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Updated: June 5, 2025
Kretes aei pseustai, kaka theria, gasteres argai . Perpetual civil wars, notwithstanding the Roman efforts to bring about peace, converted one flourishing township after another on the old "island of the hundred cities" into heaps of ruins.
They used them with as much severity as they chose; they measured their treatment only by their own passion and caprice; and, by leaving them on every occasion, without the possibility of an appeal, they rendered their situation the most melancholy and intolerable, that can possibly be conceived. Diodorus Sic. Licet hoc Athenis. Plautus. Horæ. Kaka toiade paskousin oude prasin Aitousin.
Bloomington, Ind. Some Games of Filipino Children. Os-Os. This is a game used by older persons to amuse small children, exactly as our game of the "Five Little Pigs." The child is grasped by the wrist with the left hand of the elder, who repeats "Ang áma, ang ína, ang káka, ang áli, ang nóno, tóloy, os-os sa kíli-kíli mo." The armpit is then tickled. Os-os is a verb meaning "to go up stream."
'Hato ni sanshi no rei ad' the dove sits three branches below its parent; or, more literally, 'has the three-branch etiquette to perform. 'Tete' is the baby word for 'father, and 'kaka' for 'mother'; and 'poppo' signifies, in infantile speech, 'the bosom.
A wild uguisu perches on a cedar by the window, and in a burst of savage sweetness challenges my caged pet to a contest in song; and always though the golden air, from the green twilight of the mountain pines, there purls to me the plaintive, caressing, delicious call of the yamabato: Tete poppo, Kaka poppo Tete poppo, Kaka poppo, tete. No European dove has such a cry.
And now, his position being definite and his action highly dangerous, it was decided to move against him. On the 13th of October the first Soudanese battalion was despatched in steamers from Khartoum, and by the 19th a force of some 7,000 men, well equipped with camel transport, was concentrated at Kaka, a village on the White Nile not far north of Fashoda.
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