OFF-TOPIC (was: What To Do With PNEUMATIKOS)
Mike Sangrey
msangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
Fri Oct 5 12:49:41 EDT 2001
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 10:32, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> At 10:10 AM -0400 10/5/01, Mike Sangrey wrote:
> > "The first one last wins."
>
> I just noticed your snippet beneath the signature and wondered whether it
> was intentionally drawn from Aeschylus, Agamemnon 314, where Clytemnestra
> finishes here description of the beacon fires that have brought immediate
> news back to her at Argos of the capture of Troy:
>
> NIKAi D' hO PRWTOS KAI TELEUTAIOS DRAMWN
>
> more literally, "and the first and final runner wins"
>
> or is it your own version of the proverbial Jesus saying (Mt 19;30, etc.),
>
> POLLOI DE ESONTAI PRWTOI ESCATOI KAI ESCATOI PRWTOI ?
>
It's meant to convey Jesus' proverb. Or, maybe better, Jesus himself.
He was the first one to serve everyone else.
And thanks for noticing and asking.
--
Mike Sangrey
msangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
Landisburg, Pa.
"The first one last wins."
"A net of highly cohesive details reveals the truth."
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