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   HenHanna to All   
   Did Shakespeare know Greek? -- Appetite    
   27 Aug 24 03:32:01   
   
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   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
   one fav. line (form Shakespeare)  is :   
      
   DUKE ORSINO   
                If music be the food of love, play on;   
                Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,   
                The appetite may sicken, and so die.   
                That strain again! it had a dying fall:   
      
   Appetite (has a FALL in it) ???   
      
   Did Shakespeare  know  Greek?   
      
   how about the poss. that he was toying with the idea   
                   that  Appetite    came from  (Greek) Piptein   
      
          which it did...     meaning  Rushing, Falling,  River, etc.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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