From jlupia2@yahoo.com Wed Apr 30 14:48:45 2003 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.04/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h3ULmi1M017610 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:48:45 -0700 Received: from web13504.mail.yahoo.com (web13504.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.83]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.04/8.12.1+UW03.02) with SMTP id h3ULmg85017533 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:48:42 -0700 Message-ID: <20030430214841.26090.qmail@web13504.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.39.138.192] by web13504.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:48:41 PDT Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:48:41 -0700 (PDT) From: John Lupia Subject: Re: Love Songs for Horses and Donkeys To: classics@u.washington.edu In-Reply-To: <20030430065526.RNFV1442.amsfep16-int.chello.nl@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- j.vanaken@chello.nl wrote: > I do not know the song Lalandage; an internet search > does not yield any hits. I can only tell you that my > greek dictionary (muller 1926) gives the word > '`ippodoros' for a 'melody that is played to > encourage horses to mate'. The source is Plutarch. I > do not know all the work of Plutarch, and would be > really interested to know where he uses this word. > > > > jan Horse Tales Trivia: Interesting that Ippodoros is a charcater in Plato, Protagoras. Mart. 7, 57, 2 says that Castor was nicknamed Hippodamus, the "horse-tamer". IWANNHS ===== John N. Lupia, III 31 Norwich Drive Toms River, New Jersey 08757 USA Phone: (732) 341-8689 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Roman-Catholic-News God Bless America __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com .