By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients.

It would not, in fact, be surprising to learn that Thera had called on Sparta, her mother city, to provide an oikist for her colony of Cyrene, in the same way as Corcyra called on Corinth to provide an oikist for Epidamnus.

Simply by observing the antecedents to the movement, we can tell, for example, whether an eyewink has occurred voluntarily […]

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