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David Amicus

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Sep 17, 2018, 12:28:52 AM9/17/18
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Would Caedes Procorum be Slaughter of the Suitors?

Based on the story in the Odyssey.

Evertjan.

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Sep 17, 2018, 4:23:36 AM9/17/18
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David Amicus <davida...@gmail.com> wrote on 17 Sep 2018 in
alt.language.latin:

> Would Caedes Procorum be Slaughter of the Suitors?
>
> Based on the story in the Odyssey.

Please use Google first:

Odusseias X:
Mnehstehrophonia
Caedes procororum

see: Homeri carmina, Johann Friedrich DUEBNER, 1838
<https://books.google.nl/books?id=vxZbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA496&lpg=PA496
&dq="Caedes+Procorum">

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Procus = suitor
<http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%
3Aentry%3Dprocus2>

The genitivus pluralis is stated here as "procum",
having the same number of 'use votes' as "procorum"!

Caedis/Caedes = cutting-down,carnage, massacre
<http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?
doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0060:entry=caedes&highlight=caedes>


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Mnehstehro-phonia [or Mnehstehro-ktonia]

'To murder' in Greek:
phoneuoo, phoneoo, kteinoo, anaireoo, miaiphoneoo, anairoo

mnehsteuoo = to woo, court
mnehstehr = wooer,suitor

[eh = eta, oo = o-mega]

<https://books.google.nl/books?id=Lrw9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA602-IA7>

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