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Timothe Gabashvili | 1703-1764 (XVIII) | Travels (Georgian Prose, book V, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi 1983) | Prose | “This monastery had been built by the Roman emperor Caracalla" |
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Timothe Gabashvili | 1703-1764 (XVIII) | Travels (Georgian Prose, book V, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi 1983) | Prose | “There is a big church there, they say, built by Constantine the Great, whose dome had been destroyed by Julian the Apostate” (pg. 489) |
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Timothe Gabashvili | 1703-1764 (XVIII) | Travels (Georgian Prose, book V, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi 1983) | Prose | “Eugenios, the great philosopher, came; he was a man from Benedicts’ country, a learned and wise man knowing Hellenian and Roman languages, with a distinguished appearance and Platonic... |
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Timothe Gabashvili | 1703-1764 (XVIII) | Travels (Georgian Prose, book V, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi 1983) | Prose | “In Europe, there is a holy mountain on an island among the seas. It also has a flat terrain. Close by there is Macedonia, the town of Alexander the Great; it is linked to Stythia, the place of... |
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Timothe Gabashvili | 1703-1764 (XVIII) | Travels (Georgian Prose, book V, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi 1983) | Prose | “Then Ekvtime stood up fast, and he not only did not forget Georgian but became a good orator in Georgian, and he was more loquacious and eloquent than Homer” (pg. 471) |
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Timothe Gabashvili | 1703-1764 (XVIII) | Travels (Georgian Prose, book V, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi 1983) | Prose | “People were clad in colorful spring garbs as asphodels in the May fields” (pg. 554) |
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Timothe Gabashvili | 1703-1764 (XVIII) | Travels (Georgian Prose, book V, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi 1983) | Prose | “Fields and meadows were covered by asphodels of the same color” (pg. 483) |
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Timothe Gabashvili | 1703-1764 (XVIII) | Travels (Georgian Prose, book V, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi 1983) | Prose | “We saw palaces and buildings built in a strange foreign style, looking like asphodels in the May fields” (pg. 461) |
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Timothe Gabashvili | 1703-1764 (XVIII) | Travels (Georgian Prose, book V, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi 1983) | Prose | “It was an amazing picture to see monks (nuns) coming by the boat the sails of which were blown at by Boreas” (pg. 484) |
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Timothe Gabashvili | 1703-1764 (XVIII) | Travels (Georgian Prose, book V, comp. G. Gverdtsiteli, N. Ebralidze, R. Tvaradze, Tbilisi 1983) | Prose | “By the mercy of God wind Boreas arose and we also found a good boat” (pg. 456) |
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