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"Eystein Roll Aarseth" wrote \
Well, I'm certainly not a latin linguist, but a web search helped a bit: I found URL:http://www.ancts.org/resources/chadwick/ [Snip] My last serious encounter with Latin was around the time Gagarin was in orbit, but I've found another couple of possibilities for the "Classis Caece" part: From http://www.bible-history.com/latin/latin_c.html caeco -are, to make blind or dark. caecus -a -um: act., blind, not seeing; intellectually or morally blind; uncertain, objectless; pass., unseen, hidden, obscure, dark. classis -is, f. a group as summoned, a division, class. (1) one of the classes into which Servius Tullius divided the Roman people. (2) the armed forces, esp. the fleet. (3) in gen., a class, group. There is also one assertion in a Usenet discussion that, "A classis means 'a call to arms'; The above (KLASIS) is Doric of the Attic KLHSIS (the calling)" So "a hidden call to arms" or "an unseen fleet" or both ??????? If so, it suggests some WWMCCS/GCCS-like function. Note that the three little spooks have their mouths open, as if they're calling out something. EEEWWWOOO, maybe. :-) |
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