[beppe]

Originally Posted by Ea

I was thinking it might be something like that. "Peregrine" means wanderer in latin (english?)
(foot is pied in french btw)

However, I'm not sure it matches up to 'Peleus' - I wonder what the etymology is of the name?* - and the meter (I think it's called) of the verse, seems off, isn't it supposed to be six beats per line? (I don't know the right terminology)


*my greek-english dictionary isn't very comprehensive - it offered up pelos (πηλος) = mud, clay - (Peleid: Πηληϊάδεω )

It's a name, not necessarily a concrete name, like Leo or Petrus. In school we all made jokes about the Pelìde Achille.

It's in exameters. bum bim bim bum bim bim. But that's the original in Greek. Rendition vary.


It was chanted in a way, accompanied by percussionists. With dancers also. And the guys and their queenly ladies, reclining and drinking horrible concoctions of resinous wine mixed with water and with grated goat cheese in it. In music it would be a 6/8. More like a pavana. Stately An Epic style.