Imoinda being his lawful wife by solemn contract, 'twas he was the injured man, and might, if he so pleased take Imoinda back, the breach of the law being on his grandfather's side; and that if he could circumvent him, and redeem her from the otan, which is the palace of the king's women, a sort of seraglio, it was both just and lawful for him so to do. ❋ Unknown (1688)
Exo anoixtes portes sto spiti mou otan tha erthies sti Thessaloniki! ❋ Unknown (2009)
Apo kapoios pou tora leo tin ellada einai “spiti” ego pou eimai edo yia 15 xronia tora se katalaveno poly oti to poio megalo mathima otan menoume stis xores pou den einai ‘patrida’ einai oti einai entelos ormofoi oi anthropoi pantu! ❋ Unknown (2009)
Or, reading otan paradexetai ton ippea (sc.o. ippos) ws anabesomenon, transl. “the horse has been brought round ready for mounting.” ❋ Unknown (2007)
They were not food - Food was a platter of sizzling vorst steak, a mound of well-cooked lattress, beaten, creamed with otan oil and herbs; it was an omelet of trurax eggs sweetened just enough with a syrup of bargee buds; it was - ❋ Norton, Andre (1968)
[Greek: kai archê de tou erôtos gignetai autê pasin, otan mê monon parontos chairôsin, alla kai apontos memnêmenoi erôsin.] [260] The line is a Fragment of Sophocles. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (N/A)
II. 12: {eperotetheis autos o Kurios upo tinos pote exei autou e basileia, eipen, otan estai ta duo en kai to exo os to eso kai to arsen meta tes theleias oute arsen oute thelu}. ❋ Anonymous (1902)
Socrates thus address his judges: {to de de meta touto epithumo umin khresmodesai, o katapsephisamenoi mou 'kai gar eimi ede entautha, en o malist' anthropoi khresmodousin, otan mellosin apothaneisthai}. ❋ 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon (1874)
Or, reading {otan paradexetai ton ippea (sc.o. ippos) ws anabesomenon}, transl. "the horse has been brought round ready for mounting." ❋ 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon (1874)
[Greek: Ar oun, hôsper Hippos tô anepistêmoni men encheirounti de chrêsthai zêmia estin, houtô kai adelphos, otan tis autô mê epistamenos encheir chrêsthai, zêmia esti]; ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
Tan ala tan glaukan otan onemos atrema Balle -- k.t.l. When winds that move not its calm surface sweep ❋ Percy Bysshe Shelley (1807)
But while they were thus fondly employed, forgetting how time ran on, and that the dawn must conduct him far away from his only happiness, they heard a great noise in the otan, and unusual voices of men; at which the prince, starting from the arms of the frighted ❋ Unknown (1688)
This young man was not only one of the best quality, but a man extremely well made, and beautiful; and coming often to attend the king to the otan, he had subdued the heart of the antiquated ❋ Unknown (1688)
And 'twas with impatience they waited the next opportunity of going to the otan. ❋ Unknown (1688)
The whole affair being agreed on between the prince and Aboan, they attended the king, as the custom was, to the otan; where, while the whole company was taken up in beholding the dancing, and antic postures the woman-royal made, to divert the kind, Onahal singled out Aboan, whom she found most pliable to her wish. ❋ Unknown (1688)
Imoinda, he carried him with him, in his train, to the otan, often to banquet with his mistresses. ❋ Unknown (1688)
All the otan was in disorder about this accident; and Onahal was particularly concerned because on the prince's stay depended her happiness; for she could no longer expect that of Aboan: so that ere they departed, they contrived it so that the prince and he should both come that night to the grove of the otan, which was all of oranges and citrons, and that there they would wait her orders. ❋ Unknown (1688)
This cruel sentence, worse than death, they implored might be reversed; but their prayers were vain, and it was put in execution accordingly, and that with so much secrecy that none, either without or within the otan, knew anything of their absence or their destiny. ❋ Unknown (1688)
But as it was very hard to get a sight of the women (for no men ever entered into the otan but when the king went to entertain himself with some one of his wives or mistresses; and 'twas death, at any other time, for any other to go in), so he knew not how to contrive to get a sight of her. ❋ Unknown (1688)
