(urth) Appian

[Mo Holkar]

At 21:01 28/08/2006, Rex Lycanthrosaurus wrote:
>is sterile like a bee


Sorry to be coming to this late, but just as a point of pedantry, 
only female (worker) bees are sterile -- I think that male bees are 
invariably fully sexed.

And I think I would be rather disappointed if Wolfe did intend 
"Appian" mainly to convey "Apian". Other references of Appian -- (a) 
the C2 historian of that name, and (b) the most important road into 
Rome, built by the populist consul Appius Claudius. Dunno quite where 
those take us though.

Mo