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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5146384, member: 110504&quot;]...This is likely to sound dumb, but, bouncing off of [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER]&#039;s initial post, with help from [USER=90248]@Spaniard[/USER]&#039;s, there might be a more minimalist, Occam&#039;s Razor interpretation.&nbsp; With the recurring maritime motifs, especially from Domitian to Antoninus Pius, could these issues merely be emphasizing the ongoing dependence of Rome on grain from Egypt? </p><p>(Right, not &#039;corn,&#039; except in the English sense, now archaic in American vernacular.&nbsp; ...Since it&#039;s almost the American Thanksgiving Day, here&#039;s what happened to the American word &#039;corn&#039; (/&#039;maize).&nbsp; The Pilgrims land; they immediately get turned on to maize, and they say, in effect, &#039;What <i>is</i> this?&nbsp; ...Well, it&#039;s <i>some </i>kind of corn (i.e., grain).&#039;&nbsp; And it stuck.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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