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06/22/2002 07:48:18 PM · #1 |
Hey -- sorry this is coming almost at the end of this week's voting, but I've been in Yellowstone dealing with stupid people that don't know how to pull ALL the way off the road when they see a bison they want to take a picture of...
Anyway, Pyxis Anesidorae is as close as I could get to a translation of Pandora's Box. Pyxis = box. Anesidora = another name for Pandora. I added an "e" at the end of her name to make it look like a Latin genitive (possesive) but I may have "cheated" in doing so -- both because it's Greek and because it's been a long time since I took Latin. (And that's the end of the Latin grammar lesson...
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06/23/2002 06:43:26 PM · #2 |
Originally posted by Patella:
Hey -- sorry this is coming almost at the end of this week's voting, but I've been in Yellowstone dealing with stupid people that don't know how to pull ALL the way off the road when they see a bison they want to take a picture of...
Anyway, Pyxis Anesidorae is as close as I could get to a translation of Pandora's Box. Pyxis = box. Anesidora = another name for Pandora. I added an "e" at the end of her name to make it look like a Latin genitive (possesive) but I may have "cheated" in doing so -- both because it's Greek and because it's been a long time since I took Latin. (And that's the end of the Latin grammar lesson...
Cool. Now that I understand what it means I can go lower my vote. ;)
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06/23/2002 06:45:34 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by chariot:
Originally posted by Patella:
[i]Hey -- sorry this is coming almost at the end of this week's voting, but I've been in Yellowstone dealing with stupid people that don't know how to pull ALL the way off the road when they see a bison they want to take a picture of...
Anyway, Pyxis Anesidorae is as close as I could get to a translation of Pandora's Box. Pyxis = box. Anesidora = another name for Pandora. I added an "e" at the end of her name to make it look like a Latin genitive (possesive) but I may have "cheated" in doing so -- both because it's Greek and because it's been a long time since I took Latin. (And that's the end of the Latin grammar lesson...
Cool. Now that I understand what it means I can go lower my vote. ;)/i]
Stupid me. That was last week wasn't. Hehehe oh well.
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