Re: Mefato

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, R A Brown wrote:
> Philip Newton wrote:
> > On 7/10/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> >> When I saw 'Philip Newton' as the writer of the mail, I thought I
> >> was going to read some comment about the names 'Anander Hythloday'
> >> and 'Mefato'    ;)
> >
> > Sorry to disappoint you!
> >
> > I'm afraid they still don't ring a bell even after you pointed me
> > to them explicitly. ("Anander" looks vaguely Greek for "Un-man",
> > but I can't parse the rest.)
>
> Yep - the Latin form of a Greek Άνανδρος (Anandros - un-man, no-man).
This makes sense as the narrator of Sir Thomas More's Utopia (one of my
favourite classics) is Raphael Hythlodaeus.  The name Anander does not
appear in the book, but the river the Utopian capital is built on is
the Anydrus, and the title of the ruler of the people is the Ademus.  I
will leave the translation to others.

- andrew.

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