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To: Ilaine who wrote (67793)	9/14/2005 6:12:15 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) of 71178

Not to change the subject, but I know you love words and the word of the day struck me as funny. AFFLATUS. Now be honest. What do you think of? Flatulent, right? And they do have the same Latin root. But when I read the examples I knew it was a word I could never use without doing some seriously immature scatological sniggering. Whatever happened to passion and vision and the divine afflatus in poetry? --Clive Hicks, "From 'Green Man' (Ronsdale)," [1]Toronto Star, November 21, 1999 Aristophanes must have eclipsed them . . . by the exhibition of some diviner faculty, some higher spiritual afflatus. --John Addington Symonds, Studies of the Greek Poets The miraculous spring that nourished Homer's afflatus -- afflatus \uh-FLAY-tuhs\, noun: A divine imparting of knowledge; inspiration.

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