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Example sentences for: greek

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Why do we turn so hastily to Greek and Latin whenever a new word is wanted, instead of seeking one home-born?
The area immediately to the north of the Greek Agora — Monastiráki — is one of the most interesting in Athens.
At one point in our conversations the subject drifted, and I found myself asking Lewis--thinking he was bound to know--about the kind of ancient Greek writing that was written from left to right on one line, then from right to left on the next, then from left to right again, and so on.
Much of the island was left in ruins from heavy bombing, but Crete escaped the internal strife of the civil war that raged in mainland Greece (1947–1949) and felt fewer effects of the oppressive ‘rule of the colonels’ (1967–1974) than other Greek communities.
.” So we see that the Greek word “chiefly” chosen by the Septuagint scholars to mean parthenos is the word bethulah , which Mr. Orbaum stresses is “the Hebrew word for virgin .” But the Jewish scholars of the Septuagint also chose the word parthenos to translate `almah in Isaiah 7:14, where one might have expected a less specific word.