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- ↑ Angels and Principalities: The Background, Meaning and Development of the Pauline Phrase hai archai kai hai exousiai A. Wesley Carr Page 56 ISBN 0-521-23429-8 (2005)
- ↑ Deutungen des Todes Jesu im neuen Testament edited by Jörg Frey, Jens Schröter Page 292 ISBN 3-16-148581-5 (2007)
- ↑ SEG 38:1237 Manisa Museum, fr. NE Lydia
- ↑ Sullan chronology, since 85 BC.Other inscriptions have Actian chronology, 31 BC
- ↑ (Koine Greek: pletorin from praetorium)
- ↑ rather than just unmarried (or the flutist). See monaulia in LSJ, it means either solo on the flute Archived 2009-12-02 at the Wayback Machine or celibacy Archived 2009-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ a measure of corn, LSJ Archived 2009-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ In original, synkletos the Greek word for the Roman senate
- ↑ The Greco-Roman East: politics, culture, society By Stephen Colvin Page 28 ISBN 0-521-82875-9 (2004)
- ↑ MAMA 4 283 Dionysopolis: Bahadinlar
- ↑ Attic epiorkos
- ↑ orchis , 'testicle'
- ↑ See kineô Archived 2009-12-02 at the Wayback Machine A.II.4 meaning
- ↑ chôrion, place inside a sanctuary here, or a landed holy property