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-ana  suff.  A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana of Johnson, etc. Note: Used also as a substantive; as, the French anas. "It has been said that the table-talk of Selden is worth all the ana of the Continent."






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... predecessors, but as restoring ancestral property, or temple endowments, which had come into other hands, on suit of the legal descendants of the original owners. Thus, certain land which had come into the possession of Tarim-ana-ilishu and Ur-belit-muballitat-mituti, was claimed by Marduk-kudur-usur in the reigns of Adadi-shum-iddina and Adadi-nadin-ahi, and finally granted him in perpetuity by Melishihu.(494) The land which Gulkishar, King of the Sea Land, gave to a goddess had ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns



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