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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 20:40:44 +0200
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From: Rainer Thiel <thielr@Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE>
Subject: Re: Iliad/Ilias

At 15:56 Uhr +0200 on 31.03.1999, Laval Hunsucker wrote:


> Oddly enough, "Odyssee" is here however now more common than
> "Odyssea".

Yes, quite strange, and it's the same thing in German: While "Ilias" is the
only form now in use, I have never heard "Odyssea", "Odyssee" being the
common word form.



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