{"id":902,"date":"2003-05-13T22:18:29","date_gmt":"2003-05-14T06:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=902"},"modified":"2023-04-18T19:22:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T03:22:38","slug":"an-ancient-visual-pun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"an ancient visual pun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learn something every day.  <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?selm=1052462018.2768.0%40despina.uk.clara.net\">Philip Anderson writes in <i>rec.heraldry<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <i>Maria<\/i> is the Latinisation of <i>Miriam<\/i>, which means something like &#8220;drop of the ocean&#8221;.  But the Latin translation of this, <i>stilla maris<\/i>, was confused with <i>stella maris<\/i>, i.e. &#8220;star of the sea&#8221;, which is said to be why she is often shown with a blue robe decorated with a star.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>2004 Oct 24:<\/strong> Now it occurs to me that the same root is in <i>distill<\/i> and in carmine Bur\u0101n\u014d: <i>Fortune plango vulnera \/ stillantibus ocellis<\/i> (I bewail the wounds of fortune \/ with dripping eyes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn something every day. Philip Anderson writes in rec.heraldry: Maria is the Latinisation of Miriam, which means something like &#8220;drop of the ocean&#8221;. But the Latin translation of this, stilla maris, was confused with stella maris, i.e. &#8220;star of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=902\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-language","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4522,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/4522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}