[B-Greek] Off-topic: source for Imperial quote
Barbara D. Colt
babc2 at comcast.net
Fri Jun 11 19:52:19 EDT 2004
On 11 Jun 2004 at 16:17, Harold R. Holmyard III wrote:
> Dear George,
>
> Thanks. That's a neat quote.
>
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard
>
> >I found this in Schaff _History . . ._, I, ii, ß16. "For such a monster
> >the murder of one or two dozen infants in a little town was a very small
> >matter, . . . .
> >It is a pun on the similar sounding Greek terms for sow and son (?^?
> >and ????). Kepler already quoted thispassage in confirmation of
> >Matthew.
Does someone know the word for sow? Of course it doesn't need to be a
pun. Anyone was at risk whom Herod considered a rival, certainly to
include any son past puberty. But he was a Jew of sorts and wouldn't have
been a threat to pigs.
Barbara D. Colt, mailto:babc2 at comcast.net
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