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Is the Roman personification of chaos masculine?
Miller, in his translation of Seneca, makes Chaos masculine:
"let Chaos re-echo the outcries of his grief."
Source: Hercules Furens, trans. Frank Justus Miller, ~1100
Here is a link to the Latin on Perseus:
Resonet maesto clamore chaos
Source:…
DukeZhou
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“FactUM est vespere et mane”: Cur singulare?
Genesim 1:8 Hieronymus traducit ita:
Vocavitque Deus firmamentum, Cælum: et factum est vespere et mane, dies secundus.
Cur “factum”, non “facta”? Nonne subiectum est "vespere et mane", et nonne illud est plurale?
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