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scaffold, post
"The Jews nailed the Savior to a scaffold." "For [they say] that a post stood on the tomb of the cenotaph" -- Thucydides -- "a local memorial and an Attic custom for those who have died by misfortune and have not been…
Ἴκριον. ἰκρίῳ Ἰουδαῖοι τὸν σωτῆρα προσήλωσαν. ἴκριον γὰρ ἐπὶ τοῦ τάφου κεῖσθαι τοῦ κενοταφίου. Θουκυδίδης. γνώρισμα ἐπιχώριον καὶ νόμιμον Ἀττικὸν τῶν ἐπὶ δυστυχίᾳ τετελευτηκότων…
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