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A more explicit clue: the wikipedia entry for the term makes reference to three (3) things, a theory, a person, and a period.

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Quote from: Sibling DavidH on July 21, 2010, 07:38:12 PM
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Bravo Patchy!


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There you go, Pachy! The word was P T O L E M A I C

• Ironically eccentric because thinking that the Earth is the center of the universe nowadays is.
• Literally eccentric because under the actual model the center is between the Moon and the Earth.
• Cleopatra was part of the period at the very end of it.
• The period is after the beginning of the Iron Age.
• The light is the one from the Pharos at Alexandria.
• Considered a clash of civilizations (Greek + Egyptian).

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Never good with endings.
I almost expected that is was serapeum and I failed because I used the Greek form serapeion.

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Is that the word in German?

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In German it would be ptolemäisch as the adjective and Ptolemäer as the noun. Greek forms are occasionally used but mostly in professional context.
Generally Germans tend to use latinized forms of originally Greek words if available.

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Dorian or Ionian?

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Hasn't anyone anything silly to say to pass the time?

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Yes.  I have loads of silly things in my head.

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Well I have one but it is Pachyderm's turn.

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