Definition of "from" [from]

• Used to indicate a specified place or time as a starting point: walked home from the station; from six o'clock on. See Usage Notes at escape, whence. (preposition)
• Used to indicate a specified point as the first of two limits: from grades four to six. (preposition)
• Used to indicate a source, cause, agent, or instrument: a note from the teacher; taking a book from the shelf. (preposition)
• Used to indicate separation, removal, or exclusion: keep someone from making a mistake; liberation from bondage. (preposition)
• Used to indicate differentiation: know right from wrong. (preposition)

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• "The other works of Ammonius which survive are all derived, directly or indirectly, from his lectures, taken down by his students and hence mostly described as being ˜from the voice (apo tês phônês, or: the lectures [skholôn]) of Ammonius '."
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