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* '''Bartholomew''' → Bartholomew Vanhomrigh → see [[homerigh, castle and earthenhouse]] above
 
* '''Bartholomew''' → Bartholomew Vanhomrigh → see [[homerigh, castle and earthenhouse]] above
  
* '''Bartholomaeus:''' according to St Jerome and Isidore of Seville, Bartholomaeus means “the son of him who stays the waters [of the Flood]”
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* '''Bartholomaeus:''' according to St Jerome and Isidore of Seville, Bartholomaeus means “the son of him who stays the waters [of the Flood]” → the second part of the Prankquean episode is set in Vico's heroic age, which is postdiluvian
  
 
* '''bare'''
 
* '''bare'''

Revision as of 11:50, 14 November 2010

  • Bartholomaeus: according to St Jerome and Isidore of Seville, Bartholomaeus means “the son of him who stays the waters [of the Flood]” → the second part of the Prankquean episode is set in Vico's heroic age, which is postdiluvian
  • bare
  • tholos: (Greek) dome-shaped roof; vaulted building
  • bruised heel: Genesis 3.14-15: "And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel"
  • bare, tho', lo!, bruised heels