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Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 21:34:22 -0600
To: classics@u.washington.edu
From: Peter Green <peter-green-1@uiowa.edu>
Subject: Re: The Eternal Rabbit

Michael Hendry wrote:
>
>Also, a rabbit (cuniculus) is not quite the same thing as a hare (lepus),
>which makes some of DL's connections even more fanciful than they would be
>otherwise.

I was going to point this out myself, but hesitated to split hares. Also,
clearly, the hand that strokes the cuniculus also rocks the cunae, and
where this leaves the collector of (in)cunabula I don't like to think. Or
indeed how cunica gets to be the bush for a millstone axle.

PMG


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