[HPforGrownups] Re: Character Summary: Malfoy Snr.

[Snuffles MacGoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 9107

Dai  said: "I'm not sure that the name Lucifer predates the name
Lucius. Of course I could be wrong; my entire knowledge of ancient
rome stems from Lindsey Davies novels."

Which is more knowledge than I have <g>

Cassie said - "Lucius doesn't come from Lucifer, but if I'm not mistaken,
both "Lucius" and "Lucifer" derive from the same Latin word, Lux,  ...
meaning light. They're not the same name, but they have similar
meanings; Lucifer doesn't actually refer to Satan per se but to Satan
before the fall, when he was the brightest of God's angels -- thus
the appellation "bringer of light." Lucifer as an appellation for
Satan IIRC, didn't even come about until the late fourth century
Latin translations of the original Hebrew which referred to him
as "helel ben-shadar" which translates as "shining one, son of the
morning" or and which got turned into "bringer of light." It's a bit
of an ironic name to begin with since apres the fall, Lucifer was no
longer particularly, er, shiny.

Okay wayyy more than anyone wanted to know,"

See I didn't know this either ....

You lot have an amazing amount of information floating around in your 
collective heads ...

storm
-----Original Message-----
From:	Dai Evans [SMTP:dwe199 at soton.ac.uk]
Sent:	Thursday, January 11, 2001 9:22 PM
To:	HPforGrownups at egroups.com
Subject:	[HPforGrownups] Re: Character Summary: Malfoy Snr.

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Snuffles MacGoo <msmacgoo at o...>
wrote:

> Name: Lucius - 'Lucifer', also suggests to me light (from Latin,
Lux) which




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