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FYI: one of my daily 'fixes' jp >Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 00:23:57 -0500 >From: Wordsmith <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: A.Word.A.Day--aesculapian > >Aesculapian (es-kyuh-LAY-pee-ehn) adjective > > Relating to the healing arts; medical. > >[From Aesculapius, the god of medicine and healing in Roman mythology.] > > "These apparitions, as is the nature of their kind, vanished as soon as > the crowing of the Aesculapian cock announced that the intellectual day > of Europe was on the point of breaking." > Draper, John William M.D., LL.D., History Of The Intellectual Development > Of Europe: Chapter IV. Part II, History of the World, 1 Jan 1992. > >This week's theme: words from Greek and Roman mythologies. > >............................................................................. >We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor >for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. >It has to be everybody or nobody. -Buckminster Fuller > >Send your comments about words to [log in to unmask] To subscribe or >unsubscribe A.Word.A.Day, send a message to [log in to unmask] with >"Subject:" line as "subscribe <Your Name>" or "unsubscribe". Archives, >FAQ, gift subscription form, and more at: http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/ > > >Pronunciation: >http://www.wordsmith.org/words/aesculapian.wav >http://www.wordsmith.org/words/aesculapian.ram janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset e-mail - [log in to unmask] web-site - http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/