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  "thread": {
    "id": 1721,
    "subject": "Crowns and such",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-07-22T10:53:06+00:00",
    "last": "1999-07-22T10:53:06+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0015@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew Malthouse",
        "address": "matthew.malthouse at guardian.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1999-07-22T10:53:06+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Crowns and such",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Last week a line about crown, diadems and mitres was quoted - alas I\nforget by whom as I don't have the mail any more, neither do I have\nthe books to hand so cannot quote directly.\n\nA comment was made about mitres indicating bishops. Yet this need\nnot be so. The OED gives\n\n1. a. Antiq. As rendering of Gr. <mu><tau><rho><alpha>, L.\nmitra: A headband or fillet worn by ancient Greek women; also, a\nkind of head-dress common among Asiatics, the wearing of which by\nmen was regarded by the Romans as a mark of effeminacy.\n\nwhich itself is less than it might be for the Greeks have the word\nfrom the Persians where is was the \"Crown\" equivalent, a cap which\nwas part of the symbolic regalia of the Median and Persian kings.\n\n(The transmogrification of cap to headband or fillet may be\nAlexandrine as the equivalent Macedonian symbol was a purple fillet)\n\nSo the three references to symbolic headgear may all be royal\nindicators with no episcopal reference intended at all (or, being\nWolfe, a dual reference and intentional confusion).\n\nDoes the interpretation of the passage change at all if a religious\nconnotation is excluded?\n\nMatthew"
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