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> * Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (?) - entombed alive by Decius, they were > > presumed dead until they were discovered over 200 years later Not an unreasonable presumption, I would have thought, after that length of time. Members will of course know - or will they? One can't presume on anything these days - the allusion in John Donne's poem, "The Good-Morrow": I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov'd? were we not wean'd till then? But sucked on countrey pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den? T'was so; But this, all pleasures fancies bee. If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desir'd, and got, t'was but a dreame of thee. Oriens. ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%