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Using Cumont

  • In the example corpus, cumont often appears in combinations such as: cumont and.

Context around Cumont

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 30.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

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rejected 1×

Often after:

severely 1× held 1× reconstructs 1×

Sentence patterns with Cumont

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

addressed by cumont or his 1× argued that cumont severely distorted 1× cumont held that 1× cumont reconstructs a 1× form of cumont s east 1× from which cumont and bidez 1× generally rejected cumont but adds 1× which so cumont and bidez 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a third text 1× agathias 2 23 1× another paper by 1× beck tells us 1× cumont held that 1× cumont reconstructs a 1×

Common sentence endings:

an occidental facade 1× killed the bovine 1× live on earth 1× of his name 1× of zoroastrian origins 1× was in verse 1×

Words around Cumont

Just before it in the word index:

cumnor 2 cumnock 33 cummiskey 2 cummins 335 cummingsburg 9 cummings 592

Just after it in the word index:

cumorah 6 cumpton 2 cumulant 3 cumulants 2 cumulate 6 cumulated 5

Similar in corpus frequency:

aad 10 aadhar 10 aaro 10 abels 10 abidin 10 abidine 10

Corpus analysis for Cumont

  • In this selection, "cumont" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 30.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, rejected, severely, held and reconstructs stand out and add context to how "cumont" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include addressed by cumont or his and argued that cumont severely distorted. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "cumont" sits close to words such as aad, aadhar and aaro, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with cumont

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Cumont held that a version of the myth must have existed in which Mithras, not Ahriman, killed the bovine. (19 words)

Agathias 2.23-5, Clement Stromata I.15), which—so Cumont and Bidez—derived from a Semitic form of his name. (21 words)

Another paper by R.L. Gordon argued that Cumont severely distorted the available evidence by forcing the material to conform to his predetermined model of Zoroastrian origins. (27 words)

Longer example sentences

A third text attributed to Zoroaster is On Virtue of Stones (Peri lithon timion), of which nothing is known other than its extent (one volume) and that pseudo-Zoroaster sang it (from which Cumont and Bidez conclude that it was in verse). (42 words)

Beck tells us that since the 1970s scholars have generally rejected Cumont, but adds that recent theories about how Zoroastrianism was during the period BCE now makes some new form of Cumont’s east-west transfer possible. (37 words)

Cumont reconstructs a primordial life of the god on earth, but such a concept is unthinkable in terms of known, specifically Zoroastrian, Iranian thought where the gods never, and apparently never could, live on earth. (35 words)

Example sentences (7)

Beck tells us that since the 1970s scholars have generally rejected Cumont, but adds that recent theories about how Zoroastrianism was during the period BCE now makes some new form of Cumont’s east-west transfer possible.

Agathias 2.23-5, Clement Stromata I.15), which—so Cumont and Bidez—derived from a Semitic form of his name.

Another paper by R.L. Gordon argued that Cumont severely distorted the available evidence by forcing the material to conform to his predetermined model of Zoroastrian origins.

A third text attributed to Zoroaster is On Virtue of Stones (Peri lithon timion), of which nothing is known other than its extent (one volume) and that pseudo-Zoroaster sang it (from which Cumont and Bidez conclude that it was in verse).

Cumont held that a version of the myth must have existed in which Mithras, not Ahriman, killed the bovine.

Cumont reconstructs a primordial life of the god on earth, but such a concept is unthinkable in terms of known, specifically Zoroastrian, Iranian thought where the gods never, and apparently never could, live on earth.

More problematic and never properly addressed by Cumont or his successors is how real-life Roman Mithraists subsequently maintained a quite complex and sophisticated Iranian theology behind an occidental facade.

Common combinations with cumont

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