[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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