• Philoi (Ancient Greek: φίλοι; plural of φίλος philos "friend") is a word that roughly translates to "friend." This type of friendship is based on the characteristically...
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    (basilikoi paides), bodyguards (somatophylakes), companions (hetairoi), friends (philoi), an assembly that included members of the military, and (during the Hellenistic...
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    (basilikoi paides), bodyguards (somatophylakes), companions (hetairoi), friends (philoi), an assembly that included members of the military, and magistrates during...
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  • and others classified people encountered by characters in tragedy into "philoi" (friends and loved ones), "echthroi" (enemies), and "medetoeroi" (neithers)...
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    was honoured as an hetairos of the king Archelaus. The Royal friends (Philoi) or the king's Companions (basilikoi hetairoi) were named for life by the...
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    the lapel pin design and secret grip. The open motto became – "Kerothen Philoi Aei" – "Friends From The Heart, Forever." Central to the values of Delta...
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  • not survive as a title. Rayburn notes that the phrase "the friends" (hoi philoi) occurs in Acts 27:3 and 3 John 15, but that it is uncertain whether this...
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    with a group of privileged aristocratic companions or friends (hetairoi, philoi) which dined and drank with the king and acted as his advisory council....
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    remember these things." Its Greek name ΦΠΘ, initials for Φίλοί, Πατρίς, θεός (philoi, patris, theos, or "brotherhood, fatherland, divinity"), makes the society...
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    ("Men From Prospalta") Taxiarchoi ("Brigadiers") Hybristodikai ("Abusers of Justice") Philoi ("Friends") Chrysoun Genos ("The Golden Race (or Species)")...
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    Making of the Georgian Nation, 2nd ed., p 7 Savalli-Lestrade, I. (1998). Les philoi royaux dans l'Asie hellenistique. Droz: École pratique des hautes études:...
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  • conceal him within the menos of fire, as if he were a smoldering log, and his philoi parents were kept unaware. But they marveled at how full in bloom he came...
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    φίλοι. (Hoitines pot'este chairete! Eirēnikōs pros philous elēlythamen philoi.) Greetings to you, whoever you are. We come in friendship to those who...
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    Lagomorpha Genus: †Palaeolagus Leidy, 1856 Species †P. burkei †P. haydeni †P. hemirhizis †P. hypsodus †P. intermedius †P. philoi †P. primus †P. temnodon...
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    Hestia) 014 Ἄρχε σεαυτοῦ Árkhe seautoû Control yourself 015 Φίλοις βοήθει Phílois boḗthei Help your friends 016 Θυμοῦ κράτει Thumoû krátei Control anger...
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    Alexandria, there were a small group of officials, drawn from the king's philoi (friends). These included the epistolographos ('letter-writer', responsible...
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    compared to Helen of Troy – like Aspasia, blamed for starting a war – and in Philoi to Omphale, who owned Herakles as a slave. Eupolis also alluded to Aspasia...
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  • a Syrian-Greek general and governor (strategos) and friend and advisor (philoi) of King Demetrius I Soter of the Seleucid Empire. The Seleucid Empire was...
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  • latter accordingly was assailed with personal violence by the royal friends (philoi) Megaleas, Leontius, and Crinon, at Limnaea, in Acarnania, when Philip had...
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    is merely described that in 161 BCE he was "one of the king's Friends (Philoi, a noble rank), governor of the province Beyond the River, a great man in...
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  • enemy into a partisan. He may have ended his career as one of Ptolemy's philoi (that is, a trusted friend and advisor). Heckel, Waldemar (2008). "Andronicus"...
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  • historian Plutarch even describes Artorius and Augustus as having been friends (philoi). He was said in some sources to have had several other very notable patients...
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  • Amongst these units were the various grades of 'Kings Friends' or Basilikoi Philoi, who made up other elite cavalry units similar to the Companions. Hellenistic...
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  • "Nicanor son of Patroclus" and says he was one of the king's chief friends (philoi), at a time when the position would imply being an advisor as well as just...
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  • (Sophocles play) Philodemus (mythology) Philodice Philoetius (Odyssey) Philoi Philolaus Philomelus Philon Philonides of Laodicea Philonoe Philophrosyne...
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  • relationships with the Jews, but he is accused and undermined by the king's philoi ("friends"), and forced to commit suicide. He is replaced by Gorgias, who...
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  • (SDSM 5542). A leporid. Palaeolagus P. hypsodus Wounded Knee Area. Skull & jaw elements. A leporid. P. philoi Wounded Knee Area. Jaw elements. A leporid....
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    to Dartmouth in March 1811. During his senior year, Kendall joined the Philoi Euphradias literary society, joined the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and was...
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  • to Kako ' Beyond Good and Evil'. Cyprus and Cairo, 1940. Published by Oi Philoi tou Bibliou (Friends of Books ), Athens 1947, 166 pages, published by Kedros...
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    ancestor who bore this name. During her sophomore year, she started the Phusis Philoi (Greek: Nature Lovers) club at the university for young women interested...
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