Appian

Mo Holkar · 29 Aug 2006, 15:50 · from 2006-August.txt.gz

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From: lists at ukg.co.uk (Mo Holkar)
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:50:19 +0100
Subject: (urth) Appian
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At 21:01 28/08/2006, Rex Lycanthrosaurus wrote:
>is sterile like a bee

Sorry to be coming to this late, but just as a point of pedantry, 
only female (worker) bees are sterile -- I think that male bees are 
invariably fully sexed.

And I think I would be rather disappointed if Wolfe did intend 
"Appian" mainly to convey "Apian". Other references of Appian -- (a) 
the C2 historian of that name, and (b) the most important road into 
Rome, built by the populist consul Appius Claudius. Dunno quite where 
those take us though.

Mo

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