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- From: ingria@bbn.com (Bob Ingria)
- Newsgroups: alt.mythology
- Subject: Re: That Owl
- Date: 21 Jul 1992 20:47:17 GMT
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- References: <Br6Dx6.80M@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <3384@keele.keele.ac.uk>
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- In-reply-to: cla04@seq1.keele.ac.uk's message of 11 Jul 92 10:40:58 GMT
-
- In article <3384@keele.keele.ac.uk> cla04@seq1.keele.ac.uk (A.T. Fear) writes:
- From article <Br6Dx6.80M@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, by cpshelle@jeeves.waterloo.edu (cameron shelley):
-
- > Hm. "bubo" is a greek word meaning "groin" or "swelling of the
- > groin", thus the term "bubonic plague".
-
- "Bubo" is *Latin* for "owl" so perhaps this was Minerva's version. I
- have a feeling that the Greek (or at least one Greek word) for owl is "buas,
- but wouldn't want to swear to it.
-
- I don't know about buas, but the standard name for owl in classical
- Greek, especially the owl of Athens, is glauks (whence glaukoma). In
- Homer, Athena is referred to as ``owl-eyed'' (glaukopis).
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- Bob
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