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  "thread": {
    "id": 210,
    "subject": "Lucius' language",
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    "first": "1997-09-17T20:23:48+00:00",
    "last": "1997-09-17T20:23:48+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0004-0312@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "xury",
        "address": "xury at pacbell.net"
      },
      "date": "1997-09-17T20:23:48+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Lucius' language",
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          "text": "        The introduction to \"Soldier of the Mist\" says that archaic Latin is\nthe written language of Lucius, and Greek is used is some places where\nothers have written in the journal (ie Eurykles and Pindaros). However this\nbrings up the subject of how Lucius reads these entries when he cannot read\nGreek, he barely  speaks it, accordingly to himself. The way Wolfe has set\nup this whole language conception is interesting because in \"Soldier of\nArete\" Lucius meets someone who comments that the Roman writes his letter A\nlike \" A ox's head.\" Which, in fact, was how the Egyptians and Semites wrote\ntheir A. But, Wolfe does say to us that Lucius uses Archaic Latin and not\nLatin as we know it now (Which developed around 114 AD). Oh, and Lucius'\nfriend who took him home were Crimson Men, of whom Lucius was not of\nnationality, he just knew their language.\n                                                                            \n    Xury\n\nPS Why is Severian called the red-clawed master by Hethor? (One example is\nat The Claw of the Conciliator, ch 8, p288 of The Shadow & The Claw.) "
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