Archive for March, 2014

7 Iliad 36

March 30, 2014

αλλ’ αγε, πως μεμονας πολεμον καταπαυσεμεν ανδρων;

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μεμονας: perfect μαω, in general to be eager, anxious ready.. this line sighted under [6], “to be minded or inclined, to purpose, design”. καταπαυσεμεν is future infinitive.

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But come, how have you purposed to put an end to this war between men?

March 29, 2014

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March 28, 2014

Ten times the size of Niagara, Dry Falls is thought to be the greatest known waterfall that ever existedDry Falls, Missoula Floods

On 1 May 1707, under the Act of Union, two of her realms, the kingdoms of England and Scotland, were united as a single sovereign state, the Kingdom of Great Britain…. Queen Anne

Apart from the Spanish territories of Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla on the coast of Morocco, and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, it is the only country in Africa whose de jure official language is SpanishEquatorial Guinea

Exodus I, 8-9

March 26, 2014

Ανεστη δε βασιλευς ετερος επ’ Αιγυπτον, ος ουκ ηδει τον Ιωσηφ. ειπεν δε τω εθνει αυτου “Ιδου το γενος των υιων Ισραηλ μεγα πληθος και ισχυει υπερ ημας.”

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υπερ ημας: “A frequent use of υπερ in the LXX to express comparison is due to the fact that the Hebrew language has no special form for the comparitive degree” (Conybeare/Stock, sect. 94). ισχυει < ισχυω: to be strong, mighty, powerful, prevail.

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And another king rose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, Behold, the generation of the sons of Israel (has become) a great crowd and is stronger than us.

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King James: Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

March 24, 2014

Northern California…. Northern California is not a formal geographic designation. California’s north-south midway division is around 37° latitude, near the level of San Francisco. Popularly, though, “Northern California” usually refers to the state’s northernmost 48 counties. The term is also applied to the area north of the Tehachapi Mountains.
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March 24, 2014

taiga ; condyle ; “swayback

Gandywalkers

March 22, 2014

The 42nd Parallel:

The brakeman said they’d have to get the body off the train. They laid him down flat in the ditch beside the ballast with his hat over his face. Mac asked the brakeman if he had a spade so that they could bury him. so that the buzzards wouldn’t get him, but he said no, the gandywalkers would find him and bury him. He took Mac back to the caboose and gave him a drink and asked him all about how the old man had died.

“Gandy dancer” as wiki has it (here), a railway worker responsible for track maintenance. The “ballast” is the bed of gravel they lay the track on. (wiki).

to kicke against the prickes

March 19, 2014

Apparently the earliest use of the English word “kick.” Book of Acts 26:14 (King James):

And when wee were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking vnto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kicke against the prickes.

The Greek, as I have it, for the last sentence is:

σκληρον σοι προς κεντρα λακτιζειν

where κεντρον (n.) is “sting, goad”, and λακτιζω is “kick.” On a speculative note, I wonder if technically this could be taken as an infinitive-with-accusative-subject construction, which would yield a translation more like “Difficulty kicks you with its goads” (the “with” arising from προς + accusative] though it’d be hard to explain the dative personal pronoun in that case.

March 18, 2014

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March 17, 2014

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Prince Myshkin’s name

March 15, 2014

“In the Moscow Gazette of November 5, 1867, Dostoevsky had read about the case of a peasant Balabanov who had killed the artisan Suslov. They were drinking and taking a bite together, and Suslov showed the other his silver watch. When Suslov prepared to set up the samovar, Balabanov took a kitchen knife from the table, approached Suslov, and, with the words ‘Bless, O Lord; forgive me for Christ’s sake,’ slit his throat. Balabanov was a peasant of Yaroslav Province, Myshkin district. Such is the origin of Prince Myshkin’s name.”

Dostoevsky His Life and Work, Konstantin Mochulsky (trans. Michael A. Minihan)…. Myshkinsky District (Also, a footnote mentions that mysh is the Russian word for mouse.)

Aspasia

March 14, 2014

William Gaddis, The Recognitions, pp. 939:

As fashions have originated with courtesans throughout the ages, she soon became their arbiter. And since she was, like the better class of whores in ancient Greece, a trained entertainer, no more opprobrium attached to distinguished men visiting her than fell to Socrates visiting Aspasia, and even after she had ruined him, and found herself accused of impiety, the great man appeared at her trial as her advocate, only to find his eloquence to fail him in court: ‘he could only clasp Aspasia to his breast and weep.’

Wikipedia:

Aspasia (ca. 470 BC –ca. 400 BC) (Ἀσπασία) was a Milesian woman who was famous for her involvement with the Athenian statesman Pericles. Very little is known about the details of her life. She spent most of her adult life in Athens, and she may have influenced Pericles and Athenian politics. She is mentioned in the writings of Plato, Aristophanes, Xenophon, and other authors of the day.

Misereatur

March 13, 2014

William Gaddis, The Recognitions, pp. 838:

There was silence. The shadows on the screen moved, and then Father Martin’s voice took up, a monody hardly breaking the reciprocal sounds which bound the ship in motion, no more pressing or importunate, and no more faltering than the movement of the ship itself into the darkness. Bells sounded somewhere, clear tones which penetrated the misereatur, hard separate sounds which signaled the Latin syllables with consequence: Stanley was counting them.

Century Dictionary:

1.In the Roman Catholic and other Latin liturgies, the first part of the public form of absolution, following the Confiteor in the mass. It is also used at prime and complin, and, with the singular pronoun (tui), in sacramental absolution.

March 11, 2014

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March 10, 2014

precatory pleonasm Luvah pinchbeck

March 10, 2014

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March 7, 2014

Greek Anthology Vol. I, Paton (6.77):

Οἰνοπότας Ξενοφῶν κενεὸν πίθον ἄνθετο, Βάκχε
δέχνυσο δ᾽ εὐμενέως: ἄλλο γὰρ οὐδὲν ἔχει.

March 7, 2014

ταῦτα μὲν τοίνυν ἐπὶ πλέον ἐξήχθημεν εἰπεῖν: ὃ δὲ βουλόμεθα γνῶναι τόδ᾽ ἐστίν, ὡς ἄρα δεινόν τι καὶ ἄγριον καὶ ἄνομον ἐπιθυμιῶν εἶδος ἑκάστῳ ἔνεστι, καὶ πάνυ δοκοῦσιν ἡμῶν ἐνίοις μετρίοις εἶναι: τοῦτο δὲ ἄρα ἐν τοῖς ὕπνοις γίγνεται ἔνδηλον. εἰ οὖν τι δοκῶ λέγειν καὶ συγχωρεῖς, ἄθρει.

March 6, 2014

Charlie Bowers ; long tail ; testerep ; crannock ; reply ; W.R. Grace

aversation ; Nicolás Gómez Dávila ; sporades ; cellulitus ; gamine

Carnation revolution / colonial war ; Dryas ; turing test ; ;adjuvant

March 6, 2014

In 1917 Alexander Graham Bell wrote “[The unchecked burning of fossil fuels] would have a sort of greenhouse effect”, and “The net result is the greenhouse becomes a sort of hot-house…..” Greenhouse effect