HERB - RE: Lion and Locust

Gaylin Walli gwalli at infoengine.com
Tue Sep 7 06:36:36 PDT 1999


Agnes wrote:

>Tonight I asked a linguist translating Latin for her thesis if her
>dictionary had any alternate definitions of lion, and under _leo_ she found
>"a kind of crab" and they (Oxford Latin Dictionary) cited Pliny.

Thank you! This is great information! Do we have information about
where Pliny scoured information from? (Every time I get information
like this I see my book budget whimpering on the floor in pain.)

>Hope you are all off to events and don't see this til Monday night!

Tuesday morning!

>Agnes (exhausted by the start of classes and needing to work big parts of
>the weekend to keep ahead. The class web page is a great idea, its just
>such a huge time sink, since its my first try.)

You'll do it! It'll get easier over time. And if you need anything,
don't hesitate to ask (this is what I do for a living, in part).

Jasmine
Iasmin de Cordoba, gwalli at infoengine.com

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