Nicetas
Americannoun
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In the early 10th-century Life of Patriarch Ignatios, by Nicetas David Paphlagon, a narrative of a religious figure, the author recounts the story of a woman in labor with a breeched birth.
From Scientific American • Dec. 11, 2020
Sobbing, he carried Nicetas out to a place near the mouth of the crevice, where the sand had drifted in, and with his hands he dug there a grave.
From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Shea, Robert
That emperor was buried, according to the historian Nicetas Choniates, in the church of S. Saviour the Philanthropist, 241 near the palace of Mangana, on the east shore of the city.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander
Their training troop had never traveled this far south, and Nicetas had been a fool, Daoud thought, to go hunting in unknown and dangerous country with only a pony to ride.
From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Shea, Robert
See also a remarkable passage ascribed to Chrys. in the Catena of Nicetas, pp. 371-2.488.“Jesus de felle una cum aceto amaritudinis libavit.”
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William
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