Discussions of "Ascian"
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 23 Feb 2000
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Ourboros — 23 Feb 2000, 14:35

The last two editions on the World Wide Words mailing list
(http://www.quinion.com/words/) have included discussions of  the word
"Ascian". (http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-asc1.htm.)

No reference to Gene Wolfe's works, but I chastised them for that.

-Ouroboros

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Carlos Martinho — 23 Feb 2000, 13:20
  follows, by subject match Ourboros

I went there and the discussion prompted me to look
for a similar word in a Portuguese dictionary (since
Portuguese is a Latin-derived language, it seemed a
good try). 

So, here it is: in Portuguese there's the word
"áscio",  meaning "He who lives in the torrid zone,
where, at noon, the there's no shadows produced by the
Sun". The given root is the Latin word "ascios".

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