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Scripture · Septuaginta

Machabaeorum IV

Septuaginta, 3rd–1st century BCE (by translation) — in Greek.

The words most alive here

If the same word names the dam, the wet-nurse, and the queen bee, what is it we are really naming — a person, or a relation?

By how often they stand in this work, the commonest particles set aside. Each opens onto its own word.

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