Erinyes alope

[Yuri P. Nekrutenko]

Gene Bilney mense Marti, die XIV, AD MCMXCVI scribit:

>   can anyone tell me who or what this Errinys
>   is/was and about "alope"? Thanks for any info.
>
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   ^Gene Bilney               gb0001 at jove.acs.unt.edu
>   ^Book collector            Voracious reader
>   ^Anglophile                Librarian extrordinaire
>   ^Scotophile                Devotee of Gaia & Luna
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>   ^If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is
>   ^because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music
>   ^he hears, however measured or far away.---Thoreau
>   ================================================================
>
     Erinyes (= Eumenides) - goddesses (pl.)  of revenge (= Roman Furiae) -
    three daughters of  the  Earth fertilized with Uran's  blood  drops and
    Night (Alecto,  Maegera, Tisiphone).  Alope -  two alternate  meanings:
    (1) a town in Locris Opuntica (Central Greece); (2)  hairless, baldness
    (cf. alopecia recently occurred among Ukrainian children).
     Best regards.
     Yuri
     ^Anthropophilus

Yuri P. Nekrutenko
Institute of Zoology
UA-252601 Kiev 30, MSP
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e-mail: ypnekrut at mbat.freent.kiev.ua