> The name ?EL-IS-SA? comes from Phoenician, it means ?Uterus (SA) of Sun > (EL) and Moon (IS)?. > The name Elissa is also attested in a Greek legend of Timeus and Iustinus > in which is narrated the story of Carthaginian queen Theiosso (Elissa in > Phoenician).
If 'Elissa' was a Phoenician word, what sort of a word was 'Dido'? Was it also Phoenician, or Carthaginian (if that was different), or Latin, or Greek? Patrick Roper ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
