Loebolus

Johannes Patruus

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Patruus

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Johannes Patruus <inv...@invalid.invalid> wrote on 04 sep 2014 in
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> http://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus/

Is there also a hi-ebolus both from the genus Ebola?

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Ed Cryer

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Sep 4, 2014, 6:23:07 PM9/4/14

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Evertjan. wrote:
> Johannes Patruus <inv...@invalid.invalid> wrote on 04 sep 2014 in
> alt.language.latin:
>
>> http://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus/
>
> Is there also a hi-ebolus both from the genus Ebola?
>

I take it that it's a concatenation of "Loeb" with ὅλος ("whole" in Greek).
It fits well with "Dreadnoughtus schrani" in the above post. Dumbed down
(down-dumbed??).

Ed

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Ed Cryer <e...@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote on 05 sep 2014 in
alt.language.latin:

> Evertjan. wrote:
>> Johannes Patruus <inv...@invalid.invalid> wrote on 04 sep 2014 in
>> alt.language.latin:
>>
>>> http://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus/
>>
>> Is there also a hi-ebolus both from the genus Ebola?
>>
>

> I take it that it's a concatenation of "Loeb" with ... ("whole" in

> Greek). It fits well with "Dreadnoughtus schrani" in the above post.
> Dumbed down (down-dumbed??).

It could also be a bolus of loe.

"Loe here wee haue expresse mention of seuerall sorts of worlds".
[W. Prynne, Anti-Arminianisme 1630,]
a quite early mention of the concept of a multiverse.

Or just a diminuative of loebus.

Ed Cryer

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Sep 5, 2014, 6:31:50 AM9/5/14

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Evertjan. wrote:
> Ed Cryer <e...@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote on 05 sep 2014 in
> alt.language.latin:
>
>> Evertjan. wrote:
>>> Johannes Patruus <inv...@invalid.invalid> wrote on 04 sep 2014 in
>>> alt.language.latin:
>>>
>>>> http://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus/
>>>
>>> Is there also a hi-ebolus both from the genus Ebola?
>>>
>>
>> I take it that it's a concatenation of "Loeb" with ... ("whole" in
>> Greek). It fits well with "Dreadnoughtus schrani" in the above post.
>> Dumbed down (down-dumbed??).
>
> It could also be a bolus of loe.
>
> "Loe here wee haue expresse mention of seuerall sorts of worlds".
> [W. Prynne, Anti-Arminianisme 1630,]
> a quite early mention of the concept of a multiverse.
>
> Or just a diminuative of loebus.
>
>

The idea of many universes goes back to the Stoics of ancient Greece. It
was in the writings of Epicurus, followed by Lucretius. Cicero too
discusses it.

Sunt sub nostro sole perpauculae res novae.
(Can "res novae" be used for "new things"? I've only ever seen it used
in the sense of "political revolution".
Perhaps "perpaucula nova" would be better.)

Ed

Johannes Patruus

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Sep 5, 2014, 10:00:48 AM9/5/14

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http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Res_novae

http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputatio:Res_novae

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Johannes Patruus <inv...@invalid.invalid> wrote on 05 sep 2014 in
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>> The idea of many universes goes back to the Stoics of ancient Greece. It
>> was in the writings of Epicurus, followed by Lucretius. Cicero too
>> discusses it.
>>
>> Sunt sub nostro sole perpauculae res novae.
>
>> (Can "res novae" be used for "new things"? I've only ever seen it used in
>> the sense of "political revolution".
>> Perhaps "perpaucula nova" would be better.)
>>
>> Ed
>
> http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Res_novae
>
> http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputatio:Res_novae

And perhaps as a variation on
"Concordia res parvae crescunt"?