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Nipson anomēmata mē monan opsin (Greek: Νίψον ἀνομήματα, μὴ μόναν ὄψιν), meaning "Wash the sins, not only the face,"〔 Barry J. Blake, ''Secret Language: Codes, Tricks, Spies, Thieves, and Symbols'', Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN 0-19-957928-8, p. 15.〕 or "Wash my transgressions, not only my face,"〔 is a Greek palindrome〔The Romanization is not a palindrome, because the Greek letter ''ψ'' (psi) is transcribed by the digraph ''ps''. The modern diacritics, which are not symmetrical, are usually omitted from inscriptions of the sentence.〕 which was inscribed upon a holy water font outside the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople:〔R. Langford-James, ''A Dictionary of the Eastern Orthodox Church'', Ayer Publishing, ISBN 0-8337-5047-X, p. 61.〕 The phrase is attributed to Saint Gregory of Nazianzus.〔Alex Preminger, Terry V.F. Brogan, and Frank J. Warnke, ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 3rd ed., Princeton University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-691-02123-6, p. 874.〕 The inscription can also be found in the following places: * above the Hagiasma ("Holy Spring") of the Church of St. Mary of Blachernae in Istanbul; * around the baptismal font at St. Mary's Church, Nottingham; * the font of several churches in Paris, e.g., * * St. Stephen d’Egres, * * Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris, * * , * * , * * Basilica of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, Paris; * at St. Menin’s Abbey, Orléans; * at Dulwich College; * at the following churches of the UK: Worlingworth (Suffolk), Harlow (Essex), Knapton (Norfolk), St Martin, Ludgate (London), and Hadleigh (Suffolk); * at the , Thessaloniki, Greece. ==Footnotes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nipson anomemata me monan opsin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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