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Re: original wording of Marsh's concept of Stegosaurus

To: DML <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: original wording of Marsh's concept of Stegosaurus
From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:32:03 +0200
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Does anyone have access to the original Marsh 1877 text where he names Stegosaurus? Was musing on this while helping compose a wikipedia entry. In Liddell & Scott, as well as 'stege' or 'stegos' meaning roof/cover (or funeral urn), the verb 'stego' can also mean to ward off (as well as cover).

I don't know Greek, nor do I have the Marsh paper, but I suspect that "stego" means "_I_ ward off/cover". Why would Marsh have used the first person present singular instead of the stem of the verb?

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