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Re: Chariots of da Gods?!!
Alan M. Dunsmuir (alan@moonrake.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 3 Oct 1996 06:44:47 +0100
In article <mls-0210961743230001@mls.dialup.access.net>, "Michael L.
Siemon" <mls@panix.com> writes
>However, assuming (as I do!)
>that you are correct about the latter-day origins of the Latin,
>then Jupiter is almost certainly *not* intended.
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations gives it (with "Jupiter") as by
James Duport (1606-79), whom it identifies as an "English Hellenist", in
"Homeri Gnomologia" (1660), and the Greek version as from an anonymous
scholiast to Sophocles 'Antigone'.
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Alan M. Dunsmuir
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