Meditating on the fact that "time" is the Latin word for "be afraid".

Anc Greek "timé" is "st's honor -> value -> price"

Fwiw, English language etymologists believe "time" comes from Old English "tīd", which is related to German "Zeit", which traces to Indo-European "deh₂y-"... "to divide"

Anc Greek "timé" is "st's honor -> value -> price"

Fwiw, English language etymologists believe "time" comes from Old English "tīd", which is related to German "Zeit", which traces to Indo-European "deh₂y-"... "to divide"

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BC%CE%AE
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Zeit

Also @vitalik.eth I think Shakespeare was playing w your same theme in one of my favorite poems ever (Sonnet 64):

"Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,
 That Time will come and take my love away."

^ Shakespeare faux-derives "ruminate" (meditate) from "ruin", and makes 
Time the source of this ruin.

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The other genius thing here: If we remove the word "ruin" from "ruminate" we are left with "mate" – ie, what we seek in love. 

(Shakespeare is showing us, brutally, what would be the case if Time did *not* come and take our love away.)

gluttony with the speech,
generosity with the meats.

Literally domesticating(!) every word before use 😄 👏