"EPI" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that the gill slit between it and the jaw arch is obliterated below, and the cartilage comes to serve as the intermediary in the suspension of the jaw from the otic mass. There are five branchia[l] arches, made up pharyngo-, epi- and cerato-branchials, and the ventral elements fuse in the middle line to form a common plate of cartilage. Outside these arches are certain small cartilages, the extra branchials (ex.b.) which, together with certain small labials ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells
... suessi paraemenon ai de nemontai Par Korakos petrae, epi te kraenae Arethousae, Esthousai balanon ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Letters and Journals, Vol. 1 • Lord Byron, Edited by Rowland E. Prothero
... fact that ARRIAN describes it as something remarkable in the Indians in the age of Alexander. "[Greek: Hoplisios de tes Indon ouk houtos eis tropos, all oi men pezoi autoisi toxon te echousin, isomekes tps phoreonti to toxon, kai touto kato epi ten gen thentes kai tps podi tps aristerps antibantes, outos ektoxeuousi, ten neuren epi mega opiso apagagontes."—ARRIAN, Indica, lib, xvi. Arrian adds that such was the force with which their arrows travelled that no substance was strong enough to resist them, neither ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... gar po tethneken epi chthoni dios Odysseus, All' eti po zoos kateryketai eurei ponto Neso en amphiryte; chalepoi de min ...
— The History of Napoleon Buonaparte • John Gibson Lockhart
... EPI. In what I can, that ye like to speir at me, I will willinglie and freelie tell my opinion, and if I proue it not sufficiently, I am heartely content that a better ...
— Daemonologie. • King James I
... Epi, upon, and lobos, a pod, combine to make a name applicable to many flowers of this family. In general structure the fire-weed closely resembles its relative the evening primrose. Bees, not moths, however, are its benefactors. Coming to a newly opened flower, the bee ...
— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan
... Vanuatu Type: republic Capital: Port-Vila Administrative divisions: 11 island councils; Ambrym, Aoba/Maewo, Banks/Torres, Efate, Epi, Malakula, Paama, Pentecote, Santo/Malo, Shepherd, Tafea Independence: 30 July 1980 (from France and UK; formerly New Hebrides) Constitution: 30 July 1980 Legal system: unified system being created from former ...
— The 1992 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... smikrotetos; en de tois megethesin hosper en tois agan ploutois, einai te chre kai paraligoroumenon. Me pote ede touto kai anankaiousin, to tas men ta{pein}as kai mesas phuseis dia to medame parakinduneuein mede ephiesthai ton akron, adamartetou hos epi to polu kai asphalesteras diapherein. Longin. ...
— An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients • John Ogilvie
... to God alone ([Greek: Mono gar proseukteon to epi pasi Theo]), who is over all things; and we must pray also to the only-begotten and first-born of every creature, the Word of God; and we must implore him as our High Priest to carry our prayer, first coming to him, to his God and our {140} God, to his Father and the ...
— Primitive Christian Worship • James Endell Tyler
... that religion was gaining considerable conquests among the heathen; as King Agrippa I. writes to the Emperor Caius (Philo, Legat. ad Gaium, sec. 36), "Jerusalem is the metropolis not only of Judaea but of very many lands, on account of the colonies which on various occasions ('epi xairwn) it has sent out into the adjoining countries of Egypt, Phoenicia, Syria, and Coelesyria, and into the more remote Pamphylia, Cilicia, the greater part of Asia Minor as far as to Bithynia and the remotest parts of Pontus; likewise into Europe—Thessaly, Boeotia, ...
— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen |
