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This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
There. I think I've convinced myself.
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Stuff found while looking up other stuff, and there's no place to put this stuff.
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I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
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Master and Commander
An Aubrey/Maturin list.
God help me.
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ruzuzu Chained_bear did provide us a recipe over on confectio damocritis (along with more clues about Damocritis). Jan 30, 2011
ruzuzu But it does! This is the part about confectio Damocritis that puts me in constant peril of self muttering. The story about Mithridates and royal intrigue is so Princess-Bridey that it stuck in my head, but a mithridate is different--it's a substance, not a clever practice. Both were reputedly created by that same clever man, but I find it strange--if you thought you had a universal cure for poison, why would you bother ingesting small quantities of the specific poisons you're worried about?
And who was this Damocritis anyway?
*mutter, mutter* Jan 30, 2011
sionnach I always thought that mithridatism referred to the practice of building up a tolerance to a specific poison by successive ingestion of larger and larger doses.
Fortunately I have no need to stand in line at the apothecary's -- I just look to Boris and Natasha** to provide me with bezoars as needed.
** who naturally feast on a diet of unripe persimmons. Jan 30, 2011
reesetee I'd call that double Iroqouisy.
*spits out grapeshot* Jan 28, 2011
chained_bear Of all the damn things to be Iroquoisy. Jan 28, 2011
ruzuzu Oh, iroquoisy. Page 348 from The Medical Council Annual Index, Volume XIV, mentions confectio Damocritis right next to a "shot-gun prescription." (link) Jan 27, 2011
ruzuzu Sorry--next time I go hunting for fufluns I'll remember to bring my riffle instead of my grapeshot gun. Jan 27, 2011
reesetee *chews contentedly*
Ouch! Was that...grapeshot in my fuflun? Jan 27, 2011
ruzuzu *hands reesetee a fuflun with grape riffles* Jan 27, 2011
reesetee *mutters to self* Jan 27, 2011
chained_bear Why the hell not? Confectio Damocritis to you too. Jan 26, 2011
ruzuzu Could it mean both?
"You're as sweet as confectio Damocritis."
"Why, thank you! Confectio Damocritis." Jan 26, 2011
chained_bear Either that, or it means "same to you." (Making it slightly more useful in everyday conversation, at least with non-Wordnikkers.) Jan 26, 2011
ruzuzu Chained_bear figured it out--confectio Damocritis means "fufluns with grape riffles on top" (obviously). See Aubrey Maturin. Jan 26, 2011
ruzuzu See mithridate, if you like... but you'll just end up back here... muttering to yourself.... Jan 4, 2011