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It is sophia, wisdom; it is aretê, virtue.

From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert

Hesperia ? sophia, White, Appendix to Grey's Narrative, volume 2, page 474, figure 7.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. by Stokes, John Lort

The Christ with the bridesister, moisture of light, born of an ensouled virgin, repentant sophia, departed to the plane of buddhi.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

The term is derived from the Greek, philos, lover, and sophia, wisdom.

From A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. by Anonymous

In any case it was in answer to this call for sophia that the Sophists arose.

From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert