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Is the term "stone" commonly used and widely understood for all drupes? And would it be correct to describe a date without its seed as a stoneless date?
However, leaving collection later in the season allows for the olives to continue growing, ripen so that they become black, and so more oil can be pressed from them. The finest quality oil, as today, came from the first pressing and when the mash had the minimum number of stones in it.
25 июля 2025 г.
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The term boils seems confusing. I initially associated it with the blisters caused by accidentally spilling boiling water on someone. Is there a more accurate and appropriate word in this context? Also, what exactly does "many" refer to?
We can imagine that the diet of the ordinary population was much less palatable, although it might have been healthier as many a noble court writer alludes to the boils and other maladies related to malnutrition which plagued the imperial court.
25 июля 2025 г.
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What is the equivalent of the consortiums of traders in modern days? So traffickers could be legitimate, but morally questionable in contemporary view, and yet honourable?
Phoenician trade was likely, then, carried out by state officials working on commission but also by consortiums of traders closely associated with royal households. These latter would have been high-ranking nobles, as described in Isaiah 23:8, "Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth."
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