Subject: Re: AbiSaurus v0.05
From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2001 - 04:12:35 CDT
> best of all, i had no idea "Cyprian" meant "prostitute". why doesn't a
> search for "Cyprian" yield synonyms?
`Cyprus' was another name for Aphrodite, since she is supposed to
have come to Greece from Anatolia via Cyprus.
As synonyms go, this one is unusually archaic...
Regards, Frank
Francis James Franklin
F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
Their consultation consisted chiefly in propounding and supporting, for
the thousandth time, each his favourite theories.
--- George MacDonald
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