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=== Rich hominids === | |||
“Rich people” is an appropriate, emotionally neutral term. That’s how journalism should be, and in most cases I want journalism: not polemic, not comedy. | |||
But in this case I want polemic and comedy, so let’s call them “Rich humans” – or better yet, “Rich hominids”. | |||
Speaking of rich, here’s something else – I just learned this the other day – | |||
Our modern diva derives from the Latin dives, “divine, godlike” (cognate of ancient “Zeus” and modern “deity”), and is embodied in the Roman personal name Divus, “rich”. Here is an excerpt from an interesting blog post on the subject by scholar Peter Kruschwitz: | |||
One of the recurring features of the Latin inscriptions (of Cologne just as much as everywhere else, of course) is mention of gods or other spirits – dei, deae, divi, divini . | |||
This reminded him (and me) of a question he had asked a few weeks earlier, and which I had shamefully delayed to answer: is there a link, etymologically, between divus (‘godlike’) and divinus (‘divine’) on the one hand and dives (‘rich’) on the other? | |||
Or, as my son had put it in a Skype conversation, just to puzzle his already perplexed father a little further … suntne divini divites ? | |||
The answer is … probably yes, actually. Divus , as Latin deus , is related to an Indo-European root that signifies ‘heaven’ or ‘sky’ (incidentally, the same root that survives in the English word ‘Tuesday’ and German ‘Dienstag’). | |||
Dives , in turn, has been explained in relevant etymological dictionaries as an adjective that denotes the (pecuniary) power of someone upon whom the gods do smile – in a similar way in which fortuna-tus may refer to someone who has been blessed, financially, by Fortuna. | |||
Morphologically, the word formation appears to follow a simple logic: a dives being someone whose influence (and affluence) is based on the approval of the divi just as an eques (‘knight’, ‘horseman’) is someone whose might is based on the power of equi (‘horses’). | |||
The Petrified Muse is the blog of Peter Kruschwitz, Professor of Ancient Cultural History (Antike Kulturgeschichte) at the University of Vienna and Fellow of the Pontifical Academy for Latin (Pontificia Academia Latinitatis). | |||
== In the News == | == In the News == | ||
Revision as of 18:00, 26 May 2020
Online diary of Karl Jones for Tuesday May 25, 2020.
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Song of the Day for Howard Kranz
Twenty-second in a series of songs for Howard and me to cover, or be inspired by, or something.
You Can Make It If You Try
"You Can Make It If You Try" by Sly and the Family Stone
You can make it if you try You can make it if you try Push a little harder Think a little deeper Don't let the plastic bring you down All together now Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah You can make it if you try You can make it if you try Time's still creeping Especially when you're sleeping Wake up and go for what you know All together now Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah You can make it if you try You can make it if you try You'll get what's due you And everything coming to you You got to move if you want to be ahead All together now Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah You can make it if you try You can make it if you try
- You Can Make It If You Try @ YouTube
- You Can Make It If You Try @ Wikipedia
- Lyrics
- Post @ Facebook
The Middle of the Beast
You Americans are very lucky. You live in the middle of the beast.
You are fighting the most important fight of all, in the center of the battle.
If I had my wish, I would go back with you to North Amerika to fight there.
I envy you.
—Ernesto "Che" Guevara referring to the importance of metropolitan resistance, cited in J. Rubin’s Do It!)
TO_DO: verify citation.
Rich hominids
“Rich people” is an appropriate, emotionally neutral term. That’s how journalism should be, and in most cases I want journalism: not polemic, not comedy.
But in this case I want polemic and comedy, so let’s call them “Rich humans” – or better yet, “Rich hominids”.
Speaking of rich, here’s something else – I just learned this the other day –
Our modern diva derives from the Latin dives, “divine, godlike” (cognate of ancient “Zeus” and modern “deity”), and is embodied in the Roman personal name Divus, “rich”. Here is an excerpt from an interesting blog post on the subject by scholar Peter Kruschwitz:
One of the recurring features of the Latin inscriptions (of Cologne just as much as everywhere else, of course) is mention of gods or other spirits – dei, deae, divi, divini .
This reminded him (and me) of a question he had asked a few weeks earlier, and which I had shamefully delayed to answer: is there a link, etymologically, between divus (‘godlike’) and divinus (‘divine’) on the one hand and dives (‘rich’) on the other?
Or, as my son had put it in a Skype conversation, just to puzzle his already perplexed father a little further … suntne divini divites ?
The answer is … probably yes, actually. Divus , as Latin deus , is related to an Indo-European root that signifies ‘heaven’ or ‘sky’ (incidentally, the same root that survives in the English word ‘Tuesday’ and German ‘Dienstag’).
Dives , in turn, has been explained in relevant etymological dictionaries as an adjective that denotes the (pecuniary) power of someone upon whom the gods do smile – in a similar way in which fortuna-tus may refer to someone who has been blessed, financially, by Fortuna.
Morphologically, the word formation appears to follow a simple logic: a dives being someone whose influence (and affluence) is based on the approval of the divi just as an eques (‘knight’, ‘horseman’) is someone whose might is based on the power of equi (‘horses’).
The Petrified Muse is the blog of Peter Kruschwitz, Professor of Ancient Cultural History (Antike Kulturgeschichte) at the University of Vienna and Fellow of the Pontifical Academy for Latin (Pontificia Academia Latinitatis).