There was no doubt that, if nike herself came to the earth to make the best man happy with the noblest of crowns, the spectacle would be a similar one.
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Georg Ebers
So he let his somewhat mocking glance wander from Althea to Hermon, and called to the latter: "My congratulations, young master; but I need scarcely remind you that nike suffers no one-not even goodness and grace personified-to take from her hand what it is her sole duty to bestow."
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Georg Ebers
That very Apollonius who, for the last half hour, has been trying to question the palace servants, day before yesterday ordered fifty oxen to be slaughtered to Ares, nike, and the great Isis, as the Queen's goddess, and when I met him in the temple he exclaimed that this was the greatest piece of extravagance he had ever committed; for even without the cattle Cleopatra and Antony would be sure of victory.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers