[B-Greek] Off-topic: source for Imperial quote

George F. Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Fri Jun 11 20:12:02 EDT 2004


Sow is hUS which provides a pun on hUIOS.

gfsomsel
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On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:52:19 -0700 "Barbara D. Colt " <babc2 at comcast.net>
writes:
> 
> 
> 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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> >From envy, hatred, and malice and all uncharitableness
> Good Lord, deliver us.
> 
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