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abas

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Abas was an ancient Greek sophist and a rhetorician about whose life nothing is known. The Suda ascribes to him historical commentaries (in Greek ιστoρικά απoμνηατα) and a work on rhetoric (in Greek τέχνη ρητoρική). What Photius in his Myrobiblion quotes ...

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Moreover, national abas, to assert the unity of the whole Buryate nation, are convoked from time to time.

In such abas the entire Buryate nation revives its epic traditions of a time when it was united in a powerful league.

But the son of Abas was passing along the raised banks of the muddy river, and the boar from some unseen lair leapt out of the reed-bed, and charging gashed his thigh and severed in twain the sinews and the bone.

He was not in truth the son of Abas, but Leto's son himself begat him to be numbered among the illustrious Aeolids.

Ilioneus was her chief: Alethes old, Achates faithful, Abas young and bold, Endur'd not less.

The sun had now fulfill'd his annual course, And Boreas on the seas display'd his force: I fix'd upon the temple's lofty door The brazen shield which vanquish'd Abas bore.

They were both wearing loose-fitting, sleeveless robes called abas, one of them blue, the other green.

By morning I was able to make a perfect four-point landing atop the statue of Abas, Proetus's father, which stood in the breakfast-terrace of the palace.