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["Barry H." <nebarry AT verizon.net>]

All of these are extremely unlikely. More later, Deo et tempore volentibus...

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N.E. Barry Hofstetter 
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On May 27, 2013, at 7:19 PM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:

> We have mentioned here before that the name of the Greek goddess  
> אתנה Athena
> is possibly of a Semitic origin, being but a slight variation on  
> Adena, corresponding
> to the biblical names DAN and DINAH, from the root אדן ADN, as in  
> אדון העולם
> ADON HA-OLAM, the master of the universe.
> 
> This morning, a man I know, confided to me that he thinks the place  
> name Marathon
> (from which we have the Boston Marathon) is also of Semitic origin,
> to wit: מר-אתון MAR-ATHON, there having been in this location of  
> old possibly
> a temple to this MAR (recall מרדכי MARDKEI = MAR-AD-XAY).
> 
> I thought that marathon is kind of a kraut, but is there possibly  
> some truth in what this inventive philologue is saying?
> 
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
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