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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 3916090, member: 72790"]Good post and a reminder to us that even though a word may be the same in English as one in Latin or Greek, its meaning can be quite a bit different between then and now, Genius being one of them, causing us to think that the Ancients thought the same as we do when such was not the case. One of the strangest is the word "lemur" which to us is a species of a large eyed, primitive primate while to the Romans it meant the approximation of "ghost". As for "Genius" I have often thought that for the Romans it might have carried the meaning of a "presence" or the "spirit of" something or someone, as in the genius of Augustus or the genius of the Roman Army or just the spirit of the Roman people.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 3916090, member: 72790"]Good post and a reminder to us that even though a word may be the same in English as one in Latin or Greek, its meaning can be quite a bit different between then and now, Genius being one of them, causing us to think that the Ancients thought the same as we do when such was not the case. One of the strangest is the word "lemur" which to us is a species of a large eyed, primitive primate while to the Romans it meant the approximation of "ghost". As for "Genius" I have often thought that for the Romans it might have carried the meaning of a "presence" or the "spirit of" something or someone, as in the genius of Augustus or the genius of the Roman Army or just the spirit of the Roman people.[/QUOTE]
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