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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Did Shakespeare know Greek? -- Appetite came from (Greek) Piptein Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 14:59:36 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: <vau0v1$rq8s$1@dont-email.me> References: <vak9v3$2uqrt$1@dont-email.me> <dba9aa9773a642f7acccee485188dc1b@www.novabbs.com> Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 04:59:45 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c8be37bb37a45c2f74bd22d39efb3a4d"; logging-data="911644"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/bibDpNbsy2FUHy8FgXuyXvz4aAG+SLMg=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:0BnGR1EZIawSimLZdgOzWouWfec= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <dba9aa9773a642f7acccee485188dc1b@www.novabbs.com> Bytes: 1876 On 28/08/2024 1:26 a.m., LionelEdwards wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:32:01 +0000, HenHanna wrote: > >> >> one fav. line (form Shakespeare) is : >> >> DUKE ORSINO >> If music be the food of love, play on; >> Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, >> The appetite may sicken, and so die. >> That strain again! it had a dying fall: >> >> Appetite (has a FALL in it) ??? > > The strain (the music) falls off towards the end with > sweet discord and all that. The "fall" (ending) is called in more technical musical terminology a "cadence", ultimately from Latin cadere 'to fall'.