Posted on 06/26/2020 3:49:08 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
We’ll be the Pirate Twins again.
You never disappoint.
The Greek word is diopetous, a genitive form (the nominative is diopetes--the second E is an eta). "Dio-" is from Zeus and "petes" is from the verb pipto to fall. According to Liddell and Scott's Intermediate Greek Lexicon, the word is found already in Euripides, approximately 500 years earlier.
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