ext_59390 ([identity profile] aubri.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] dianeduane 2006-09-14 02:12 pm (UTC)

Hah, nice catch! Though, actually, I think someone's being slightly more (or less?) clever than that, even.
As Hesiod wrote in Theogony, "But abhorred Eris ('Strife') bore painful Ponos ('Toil/Labor'), Lethe ('Forgetfulness'), ...(lots of bad stuff)... Dysnomia ('Lawlessness') and Ate ('Ruin/Folly')."

'Dysnomia' comes from dis+gnostos, no+knowledge, that is ignorance -- but in context, ignorance of the law!

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