Posted on 04/07/2005 3:09:27 PM PDT by kagoots
Ahhhhhhh!
LOL!!!
Or,...was it 'turned it forward'...?
And, what of those lost days wrought by Pope Gregory????
"Of course, before 2000, about every psychic you saw on TV said we wouldn't even make it this long."
Very true.
And I'm speaking as a person who was caught overloading her shopping cart at the local Safeway on New Year's Eve, 1999. :)
We had enough bottled water and boxed macaroni & cheese to last for a very, very long time. ;)
"Read post 48. Malcolm Moore turned the clock back when he reached the 12th century."
Oh, my goodness. I did just read post 48.
I need to put in an emergency message to Art Bell. I'm so confused, LOL!
Sorry, but you're wrong.
The standard Latin for solar eclipse is labores solis. Look it up in the dictionary.
It's been a long time since my Latin classes, so someone more knowledgeable might correct me on this, but I think that solis is just the genitive of sol, i.e., " the sun's", so it's just a difference of the "sun's labor" as opposed to the "labor of the sun." Sounds OK to me.
Also, considering that we only have about 2 of any kind of solar eclipses per year, partial or otherwise, the probability of having solar eclipses on both of two randomly selected days, is about one in 33,000, which lends a whole lot more weight to the story than you suggest.
"The standard Latin for solar eclipse is labores solis. Look it up in the dictionary."
The standard Latin for eclipse is eclipsare. In other words, eclipse _is_ a Latin word, which makes it rather idiotic to suggest there would be a Latin word for eclipse other than eclipse.
On top of that (not to make an appeal to authority) I got my degree in the history of astronomy and _never_ encountered the term "labore solis" in _any_ context.
1. From online dictionary at University of Notre Dame:
eclipse: labor (2) (labos) -oris m. (1) [work , toil, effort, industry, capacity for work; feat, work, result of labor]. (2) [hardship, fatigue, distress]; 'labores solis', [eclipse of the sun].
2. From the Perseus Digital Library:
a. Labores solis, eclipses of the sun
3. From humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk:
Results for query "eclipse": labores solis : eclipse of the sun.
4. www.sunsite.ubc.ca
eclipse:
Meaning: labores: eclipse of the sun. solis: eclipse of the sun. sun.
5. latin.realdictionary.com:
Definition:- eclipse of the sun. - labores solis
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