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Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 17:46:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Alfred M Kriman <akriman@darwin.helios.nd.edu>
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To: classics@u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: Prometheus Unloosed

David Meadows writes

> Plenty of examples by clicking:
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=Promethean+proportions&btnG=Google+Search

But this is not a phrase search.  Google ranks highly the seventeen
pages with the phrase "Promethean proportions"; the other 392 hits
have _Promethean_ and just happen to include _proportions_ also.

Some approximate Google counts for phrases, including some nonclassical
terms for perspective:

5200, 1820 gigantic proportions, scale
2450, 584 gargantuan proportions, scale
1680,1230  titanic proportions, scale
637, 55 Herculean proportions, scale
255, 56 Olympian proportions, scale
140, 32 Homeric proportions, scale
	(2200 Heroic proportions)
32, 3, 1009 Sisyphean proportions, scale, task
24, 2 Dionysian proportions, scale
17, 8, 2, 29, 2, 99, 15, 8
Promethean proportions, scale, dimensions, act, action, gift, theft, boldness
	(see also "Promethea(n) movement: http://www.promethea.org/)
12, 0 Junoesque proportions, scale
	(28 Rubenesque proportions, even 8 Reubenesque p.)
2, 4110 diatonic proportions, scale

AMK
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