XPost: alt.language.latin, alt.usage.english
From: HenHanna@devnull.tb

one fav. line (form Shakespeare)  is :

DUKE ORSINO
             If music be the food of love, play on;
             Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
             The appetite may sicken, and so die.
             That strain again! it had a dying fall:

Appetite (has a FALL in it) ???

Did Shakespeare  know  Greek?

how about the poss. that he was toying with the idea
                that  Appetite    came from  (Greek) Piptein

       which it did...     meaning  Rushing, Falling,  River, etc.

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