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Re:Eros at Play by cafard on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:10PM (#20870022)
It seems to me that Ronald Knox's On Englishing the Bible remarks that the "pale horse" of Revelations is "chloros" in the Greek.
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Re:Eros at Play by jazzyjackson on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @04:50PM (#20871014)
Oh very interesting, thanks for the tip

It seems this may be related to that wine-dark sea of homeric greek, I'm seeing some references that Chloros is also used to describe the color of honey ! a pale yellow, so that chloros might be more about brightness than hue.

Another aeon article goes into detail... https://aeon.co/essays/can-we-hope-to-understand-how-the-gre...

thanks again

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