Sujet : Re: Did Shakespeare know Greek? -- Appetite came from (Greek) Piptein
De : benlizro (at) *nospam* ihug.co.nz (Ross Clark)
Groupes : sci.langDate : 31. Aug 2024, 04:59:36
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On 28/08/2024 1:26 a.m., LionelEdwards wrote:
On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:32:01 +0000, HenHanna wrote:
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one fav. line (form Shakespeare) is :
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DUKE ORSINO
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
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Appetite (has a FALL in it) ???
The strain (the music) falls off towards the end with
sweet discord and all that.
The "fall" (ending) is called in more technical musical terminology a "cadence", ultimately from Latin cadere 'to fall'.
Re: Did Shakespeare know Greek? -- Appetite came from (Greek) Piptein
Re: Did Shakespeare know Greek? -- Appetite came from (Greek) Piptein