Philip Hart writes:
>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.
Yes. My memory disagrees with your spelling. However, my memory may
be wrong, and probably is.
>> but this is not that riddle.
>How do you know? I mean, maybe you think that, say, "mercury" is a
>better answer, but ...
That's not the answer either (for similar reasons as a cadescus -- I
wouldn't use Hermes to refer to either his Roman analogue or his
regalia; it's a bit gauche. Obviosly, I'm referring to a cadescus in
my imagery, but it wouldn't be much of a riddle if that were the
answer).
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