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• Socrates was put to death, but the Socratic philosophy rose like the sun in heaven, and spread its illumination over the whole intellectual firmament.
• Olympiodorus, in Photius's Extracts, tells us of one Libanius, who practised this kind of military magick, and having promised [Greek: choris hopliton kata barbaron energein], _to perform great things against the barbarians without soldiers_, was, at the instances of the emperess Placidia, put to death, when he was about to have given proofs of his abilities. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
• He would not like to catch hold of and put to death some other innocent person to redeem this sinner from his sins.
• Should both the active and passive participants be put to death? Times, Sunday Times
• The prisoner was put to death at dawn.
• He is blamed for someone's death and set to be put to death himself; his wife rides out and ransoms him, and it ends with him saying, "The fairest flower o woman-kind/Is my sweet bonie lady. Water song
• Cathari ought not to be put to death after an ecclesiastical trial, lest the Church be compromised: "_Illud ab eo fit, cujus auctoritate fit_," he said, to justify his recommendation. [ The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church
• And the name of the Midianite woman who was put to death was Cozbi daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.
• Usuard call Arian, and who had already put to death SS. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
• Should both the active and passive participants be put to death? Times, Sunday Times