# Digest urth.v030.n040 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 15 Dec 2000* > 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. --- ### Jeremy W. Crampton *15 Dec 2000, 09:30* Actually (though I get your joke) the derivation of "Amazon" from a-maza or without the (right) breast, although popularly accepted by some Ancient Greeks (eg., see Strabo 11.5.1) is not attested. Herodotus mentions them in the same passage Wolfe used to name his Scythian character Oior ("Man"); see Hdt. 4.110. Jeremy > From: "Talarican" > Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?If_You're_Going_to_Ste._Anne,_Be_Sure_to_Pack_a_Sweater?> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 23:51:28 -0500 > I am still awaiting delivery of my used copies of 5HC (1 Scribner's, 1 > Ace) > from that emporium called, in one of your dead languages, "Lacking > Breast". > The oddities of your language and culture provide me endless puzzlement > and > amusement. When I have those tomes, I can search for more evidence. ---