On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Joshua Kronengold wrote: > Philip Hart writes: > >I thought "caduceus", the snake-twined staff or wand Hermes carries as he > >leads souls to Hades, but that seems rather obscure. > > It would not be beyond me to make a riddle whose answer is "cadescus" > (or however one spells it), Why, I spelled it but two lines above. > but this is not that riddle. How do you know? I mean, maybe you think that, say, "mercury" is a better answer, but ...