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HelpRe: Birth Announcements - What do you think?
in reply to a message by Lissa Hannah
Angiluz - neat name!
London Bourne - omg, wow pretentious wow.
Brock Alan - Brock is, too!
Noha Kyle - No ha? Aww.. that's so serious.
Fabian Alexis - keeping my big mouth shut on this.
I am going to have to look up the meaning of Corydon now...
I found this on Wikipedia and I'm posting it here because it's of interest on the site, imo.
begin quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corydon
Corydon is the title of a book by Andre Gide about homosexuality. The contents were published at various times from 1911 to 1920, and the book appeared in 1924. [..] It takes its title from Corydon, a shepherd whose love for a boy is described in the Eclogues of the Roman poet Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, 70-19 B.C.E.).
Corydon had been the typical name for a Shepherd in earlier (pastoral poems) and (fables), such as the one in Idyll 4 of the Syracusan poet Theocritus (c.310-250 B.C.E.). The name Corydon comes from the Greek korudos, "lark").
Other typical names for such poetic figures are as follows:
* a Rooster = Chaunticleer (from French Chanticler; [chant + clear, in reference to its crow])
* a Fox = Reynard (from French Reignart; reign + -ard, "kingly one")
* a Cat = Felix (from Latin felix, "happy" [influenced by Latin feles, "cat, feline"])
* a Dog = Rufus (fom Latin rufus, "red" [influenced by ruff, the bark of a dog])
- chazda
London Bourne - omg, wow pretentious wow.
Brock Alan - Brock is, too!
Noha Kyle - No ha? Aww.. that's so serious.
Fabian Alexis - keeping my big mouth shut on this.
I am going to have to look up the meaning of Corydon now...
I found this on Wikipedia and I'm posting it here because it's of interest on the site, imo.
begin quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corydon
Corydon is the title of a book by Andre Gide about homosexuality. The contents were published at various times from 1911 to 1920, and the book appeared in 1924. [..] It takes its title from Corydon, a shepherd whose love for a boy is described in the Eclogues of the Roman poet Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, 70-19 B.C.E.).
Corydon had been the typical name for a Shepherd in earlier (pastoral poems) and (fables), such as the one in Idyll 4 of the Syracusan poet Theocritus (c.310-250 B.C.E.). The name Corydon comes from the Greek korudos, "lark").
Other typical names for such poetic figures are as follows:
* a Rooster = Chaunticleer (from French Chanticler; [chant + clear, in reference to its crow])
* a Fox = Reynard (from French Reignart; reign + -ard, "kingly one")
* a Cat = Felix (from Latin felix, "happy" [influenced by Latin feles, "cat, feline"])
* a Dog = Rufus (fom Latin rufus, "red" [influenced by ruff, the bark of a dog])
- chazda
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