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colophon

[kol-uh-fon, -fuhn] / ˈkɒl əˌfɒn, -fən /


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He once wrote a readable one: Curse in the Colophon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Persons who are literary-minded read magazines like The Bookman, The Saturday Review of Literature, The Colophon, But the booklover and the average reader may be completely different persons.

From Time Magazine Archive

The elegy of Mimnermus of Smyrna or Colophon is the plaintive farewell of an ease-loving Ionian to the days of Ionian freedom.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

On the return of Mentes, he accompanied him to Colophon, where he became totally blind.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

ANTIMACHUS, of Colophon or Claros, Greek poet and grammarian, flourished about 400 B.C.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various




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