{"id":1178,"date":"2014-06-20T21:12:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T02:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2014-06-20T21:21:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T02:21:26","slug":"how-is-gaios-holy-and-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"How Is Gaios Holy and Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Laudator Temporis Acti<\/em> quotes <a href=\"http:\/\/laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com\/2014\/06\/a-third-century-ad-inscription-from.html\">A Third-Century A.D. Inscription from Eumeneia<\/a>, adding many interesting comments. Here is one more. The first four lines mean &#8220;I Gaius, who am equal in numerical value to two words of awe, make this declaration as a holy and good man.&#8221; Since the Greek alphabet was also used to express numbers, and Greek word has a numeric value. Gaios is proud that his name has the same value as the adjectives <em>h&aacute;gios<\/em> (&#8216;holy&#8217;) and <em>agath&oacute;s<\/em> (&#8216;good&#8217;). What value? You can do the arithmetic yourself, or you can use my calculator page, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvmeri.org\/arithmoi2.php\">Are You the Beast of Revelations?<\/a>, part of a larger site on ancient numbers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvmeri.org\/\">Nvmeri Innvmeri<\/a>, that also allows you to test how quickly and accurately you can translate randomly-selected numbers from one ancient system to another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laudator Temporis Acti quotes A Third-Century A.D. Inscription from Eumeneia, adding many interesting comments. Here is one more. The first four lines mean &#8220;I Gaius, who am equal in numerical value to two words of awe, make this declaration as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1178\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-numeri-innumeri","tag-epigraphy-laudator-temporis-acti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}