lucius vs. lycius

mournings glory · 01 Apr 2006, 05:45 · from 2006-March.txt.gz

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From: mourningsglory at hotmail.com (mournings glory)
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:45:17 +0000
Subject: (urth) lucius vs. lycius
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Marc:

Well, for starters, Latro never comes right out and tells us his name is 
"Lucius." Rather, at the end of Arete, he chronicles being hailed as 
"Lewqys" by the Phoenician boat-captain Muslak and then surmises that this 
indeed might be his real name. The Phoenician, I gather, is speaking with 
some sort of accent. Certainly Latro does not recognize the name as either 
'Lucius' or 'Lycius'. Otherwise this is how he would have transcribed it. 
Complicating the matter still further the letter 'y' was adopted into the 
*later* Roman alphabet as representative of Greek 'v', which as Mr. 
Andre-Driussi notes in his Lexicon Urtheum (this is the correct Latin 
declension, not 'Urthus') is equivalent to our consonantal 'u'. Plus Latro 
is, if we ignore the guise that this is a work of fiction, translating from 
a milieu where everyone speaks Greek into early Latin, which is then given a 
modern translation into English by one Gene Wolfe. So to ask if 'Lucius' and 
'Lycius' are two separate names at this stage, the answer is no, huh-uh, 
absolutely not.

Now let's hear some more about the Pleistorus-Latro connection.

epsilon mu

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>Subject: (urth) lucius vs. lycius
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>Hmm.  Just had to comment on this Lucius/Lycius thing one more time.  
>Lucius means bringer of light, Lycius is the name of the wolfly aspect of 
>Apollo.  So in Greek these names would be indistinguishable, but they are 
>different names in Latin, right?
>
>But Latro was actually writing in primitive Latin, right?

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