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Anathematical   Listen
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Anathematical, Anathematic  adj.  Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema.






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"Anathematical" Quotes from Famous Books



... antiquity;[18] and actual dedications are extant which are at least as early as 600 B.C.[19] In this earlier period the verses generally contained nothing more than a bare record of the act. Even at a later date, the anathematic epigrams of Simonides are for the most part rather stiff and formal when set beside his epitaphs. His nephew Bacchylides brought the art to perfection, if it is safe to judge from a single flawless specimen.[20] But it is hardly till the Alexandrian period that the dedication has ...
— Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology • J. W. Mackail



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