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So does the word serendipity stem from the Sri Lankastrian fairy story, described by "Helen of Troy", and the island's old name? Well I never knew that.
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Jackie!!
IE = Indo European.
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AHD doesn't carry (a)equi back any farther than Latin, but suggests that ekwo- comes ultimately from kwon-, dog.Which clearly gives rise to that famous Japanese sport, Tae Kwon-do, picking up dog do in plastic bags ... 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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"that famous Japanese sport, Tae Kwon-do,"
Dear CK: Since when have the Japanese adopted Korean martial arts?
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In the final scene of Doctor Faustus, where there are only a few minutes left until midnight, when Beelzebub and Satan will come to take posession of Faustus and he is reeling about the stage in terror, Marlowe has him declaim this line:
Lente, lente currite, noctis equi
Run slowly, slowly, ye horses of the night!
Richard Burton did full justice to this in the film version of the play.
This line is composed almost entirely of spondees, the slowest of the metrical feet.
(IMHO, this scene is one of the greatest pieces of dramatic writing in the English, or any other, language. And the play is a masterpiece.)
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Dear Bobyoungbalt,
Care to translate Lente, lente currite, noctis equi?
Otherwise, it's going to mean, "Slowly, slowly cure, nightmare" in this poor confused brain of mine that only knows some English and a little bit of French...
Best regards,
WonderingWind
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WW, He did so. In white  : "Run slowly, slowly, ye horses of the night" And I agree, it is a powerful scene in a powerful story.
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My husband and I went through a stage of watching every terrible dubbed martial arts movie we could get our hands on at the local movie store. The winner for extreme cheesiness was "When TaeKwonDo Strikes" (which we now always say with a mock-serious announcer-voice). It was about the underground movement of TaeKwonDo schools in Korea during the Japanese occupation. Who knows if it was biased or not, but it was an interesting glimpse into what the Koreans thought of the Japanese actions at the time.
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