# Honey for prion *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 Oct 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Robert Borski *10 Oct 1998, 15:22* Earlier this year prion (Sean Whalen) brilliantly observed the connection between Appian, the old autarch, and the Latin word for bee, apis. Why this works is because Appian was a honey steward before he became autarch. And who trained him in his duties as honey steward, the same way Palaemon trained Severian? Paeon. But notice how in LEXICON URTHUS, mantis remarks how Palaemon was originally known as Melicertes. (I believe prion mentions this too.) Also now recall that the Greek word for honey is meli (Latin, mel). This is but one clue of many that Paeon and Palaemon are one and the same. (There's a huge clue in Chapter 25 of CITADEL, where Appian discusses Sev's visit to the House Azure.) Robert Borski ---