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Re: My column on Milo and why I think it's use in the USA is more from the Greek than Slavic origin

by Retrospectre

4/8/2025, 2:14 AM

in reply to a message by clevelandkentevans

Shakespeare makes a reference to Milo in Troilus and Cressida. It's not a strong reason a name would trend but probably one of the more accessible places it might have been seen? It wasn't a popular play though, and may have been read more than performed.

Also the entry on Milo in Yonge's Christian names is the same in the first edition of 1863.

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- clevelandkentevans

4/8/2025, 8:57 AM

Thanks. Though the reference in "Troilus and Cressida" is so minor it would go unnoticed by most viewers of the play, it certainly is another piece of evidence that it was the Classical Greek Milo, not the medieval Latin form of Miles, that would have been known in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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