(1) The stench of blood would have wafted down from the great religious sanctuaries - at Delphi, spiritual heart of the Greek world, each suppliant was required to sacrifice a goat.

(2) The text refers to the humble suppliant as Jehu, son of Omri (a name by which all Israelite kings were identified, whether of the Omride dynasty or not) and describes the gifts he brought.

(3) Moreover, it also implied that Roman territory, whether administered by the army or by suppliant British rulers, was firmly in Aulus Plautius' hands.

(4) The suitors, for good measure, also violate the code associated with feasting in other ways - by mistreating the servants in Odysseus's palace, and by their churlish treatment of Odysseus in disguise as a suppliant beggar.

(5) Often they resorted to psychological trickery such as planting a seeming dumb boy to come as a suppliant to the temple and then to recover his voice.

(6) Exhausted, he dragged himself back to the temple in the morning, trying to summon the right words for the next suppliant .

(7) Officials, most of whom are poorly paid, control access to things as lucrative as a large construction contract or as modest as a permit to reside in a neighborhood, all of which can cost the suppliant special fees.

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(9) Inside the temple is a well that is believed to have the power to bring good luck and prosperity to suppliants .

(10) The judges are supposed to be separate, not suppliants to Executive Government.

(11) The presence of noble British exiles at Rome as suppliants to the emperor will have reinforced Roman attitudes.

(12) Unable to pay their fines despite their great wealth, they were presumably stripped of their ordinary legal protections as citizens, but as suppliants in a temple they were under the protection of the gods.

(13) That mode of expressing grief was used also by the heathen, but was specially appropriate in the pious worshippers of God in suppliantly deprecating his wrath.

(14) Without such living arrangements it would not have been possible for thousands of Messenians to hold out as suppliants in the sanctuary of Zeus on Ithome in the 460s BC until they finally obtained safe conduct to their new home at Naupactus.

(15) There is little sign of satisfaction among the crowd of suppliants , relegated after the audience to the external space beyond the parapet on the right.