Re: CHAT Elusive Ithacans (was: Fruitful typos (was: Vulgar Latin))
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 19, 2000, 20:24 |
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At 19:09 +0100 18.1.2000, Raymond Brown wrote:
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>'ithake:sios' is the adjectival form found in both the
>Iliad & the Odyssey. I find no authority for *ithakos.
I knew Homer used _ithake:sios_, but since I thought _Ithacensis_ was
adapted from that I wrongly assumed _Ithacus_ was taken directly from Greek.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...>
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