From: Juan Stam (jstam@una.ac.cr)
Date: Tue Apr 25 2000 - 17:42:33 EDT
<x-charset iso-8859-1>Greetings from Costa Rica! I am up to my neck writing a three-volume
commentary on REVELATION so my participating in B-Greek is limited for a
while to lurking (reading with interest) and selfishly asking for help from
time to time.
I recently reread several passages (like> Sybilline Oracles 5:35ss) which
play around with the numerical significance of names and their letters. I
had not seen before Robert Graves' translation> of Suetonius NERO 39
(Penguin edition, p.236):
Count the numerical value
Of the letters in Nero's name,
And in "murdered his own mother
You will find their sum is the same.
Graves' footnote clarifies that the total of each, in Greek letters, is
1005.
Can anyone find me the original Latin of that ditty? Also, is it possible
to download Suetonius on the Web?
I'm also looking for Dio Chrysostom ORAT 21.10, which apparently makes
similar references to Nero. Can anyone help me on those same two questions
about this other passage?
In advance, my hearty thanks!
Juan Stam, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica
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