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in reply to a message by Pavlos
Dear Pavlos, not even you could knowingly produce that definition of Kallistanthe - but congratulations on a wondrous typo!
Thanks also for Ianthe, which now you come to mention it I do know from that poem about the girl who was like ripples in a sunny river and daisies in the grass. What a tribute! The others are ... interesting (whatever is a wine flower? A dark red one? Or blue, to match the wine-dark sea?) ... but (as the kids say) SO last millennium. Or, I'd guess, the one before last ... Were they in use for general naming purposes, or are they mostly known from myths etc - can't recall having seen 'em, but I'm a Latinist - or I was - so I get my Greek filtered.
All the best
Thanks also for Ianthe, which now you come to mention it I do know from that poem about the girl who was like ripples in a sunny river and daisies in the grass. What a tribute! The others are ... interesting (whatever is a wine flower? A dark red one? Or blue, to match the wine-dark sea?) ... but (as the kids say) SO last millennium. Or, I'd guess, the one before last ... Were they in use for general naming purposes, or are they mostly known from myths etc - can't recall having seen 'em, but I'm a Latinist - or I was - so I get my Greek filtered.
All the best
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> Dear Pavlos, not even you could knowingly produce that definition of Kallistanthe - but congratulations on a wondrous typo!
Oh my gods, what have my fingers randomly generated! My apology to any Kallistanthes out there, no innuendo intended :)
Oinanthe is indeed most likely related to colour, 'though I could also metaphorically imply something along the like of "intoxicating beauty". The only place I encountered this obscure name is *Lexicon of Greek Personal Names* (Oxford U.).
Cheers backacha, dear :)
Oh my gods, what have my fingers randomly generated! My apology to any Kallistanthes out there, no innuendo intended :)
Oinanthe is indeed most likely related to colour, 'though I could also metaphorically imply something along the like of "intoxicating beauty". The only place I encountered this obscure name is *Lexicon of Greek Personal Names* (Oxford U.).
Cheers backacha, dear :)
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