Bast 55th St., New-York. 
1883. 
Your word @astanogastris has laid hold of me and 
Would mot let me ge till had fc ax acquaintance of its sis- 
ters and its eccusins and its uncles and its aunts, 1f you derive 
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it “frem acc cas Of and not the noun Uae but the adjec- 
be Vv 
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tive Yaet ees » I think you have a word that is almost impregna- 
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VU 
ble, and can be maintained vith confidence, The only eb ection 
i a = 
that can be urged to it is that ee er mostly refers to the 
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internal economy, in the sense of gluttoncus, 3ut the earilest 
meaning eught to have been the concrete “pertaining to the belly”, 
and it oceurs ,in this sense, in Aelian, where 
) , ae) 
(acevo¢) 
w 4 
hole eut in the ice like a big-bellied Jar’. He it is true, is a 
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late writer, out Liddell and Seott in their article on Vyas 5 oe es 
in the latest edition of their Lexicon have given the concrete 
sense the precedence in positien, as is legically proper, notvith- 
standing its late occurrence, The derivative verb vyace ty 
Vv 
“to hit in the belly”, found as early as Aridtophanes, alsc tends 
to prove the concre sen he earliest, Actual Greek compound 
adyectives vhose second element is from the stem of Yas 
end most frequently in -Tarp as EVUEVYVAGTwe » “broad—-ellied”; 
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VY 
some in-Cty » and Someta re Peer Of these in-Cap 1 have gath—- 
ered at least 13 to-day, but they vere not what 1 was hunting fer, 
