Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	beginning_n	year_n	young_a	20	3	7.0813	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61814	Breviarium chronologicum being a treatise describing the terms and most celebrated characters, periods and epocha's us'd in chronology, by which that useful science may easily be attained to / writ in Latin by Gyles Strauchius ... ; and now done into English from the third edition, with additions.	Strauch, Aegidius, 1632-1682.; Sault, Richard, d. 1702.	1699 (1699)	Wing S5941; ESTC R39107	274,730	510

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when_o parmenio_n of_o mitylene_n get_v the_o victory_n in_o the_o race_n 4._o in_o the_o same_o year_n that_o l._n papyrius_n be_v the_o 5_o time_n and_o c._n junius_n the_o 2_o do_v time_n roman_n consul_n all_o which_o character_n be_v relate_v by_o 69._o by_o c._n 69._o diod._n siculus_n 5._o in_o the_o 148th_o year_n of_o the_o grecian_a epocha_n judas_n the_o maccabean_a do_v purge_v the_o temple_n of_o jerusalem_n after_o its_o profanation_n by_o the_o gentile_n 53._o gentile_n 1_o mac._n 4._o v._n 52_o 53._o which_o restauration_n of_o the_o temple_n happen_v in_o the_o first_o year_n of_o the_o 145th_o olympiad_n according_a to_o ant._n to_o l._n 12._o c._n 11._o ant._n josephus_n 6._o the_o 150th_o year_n of_o this_o same_o epocha_n when_o antiochus_n eupator_n besiege_v jerusalem_n be_v a_o sabbatick_a year_n 53._o year_n 1_o mac._n 6._o v._n 53._o 14._o 53._o jos_n l._n 12._o c._n 14._o 7._o after_o the_o death_n of_o alexander_n the_o great_a onias_n the_o highpriest_n 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