Re: [tied] Hairy Venus

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 18884
Date: 2003-02-18

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From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Hairy Venus



> 1) iuba = Morgenstern
> 2) iuba = begining with Lucretius = light of the sun, begining with
> Ovidus= " glance"
> 3) iuba= later in latin " mane, crest"
> 4) the old initialy meaning was just "morgenstern"

Alex, a morgenstern is what I'm gonna club you with if you don't stop stirring up confusion. Is it so difficult to understand that <iubar, -aris> (n.) and <iuba, -ae> (f.) are two different words in Latin? What dictionary are you using?? Please check the words up in Lewis & Short:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/resolveform?lang=la

Piotr