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This learned term comes from Greek. Onomasticon; from, onomastikon, onomastikona, meaning in Greek, “consisting on names.” It consists in a list of names, particularly of the proper names within a given culture as a philological aid to their meaning and etymology, as found for instance in Plato’s Cratylus. The Onomasticon of Julius Pollux from the second century A.D. is a ten-volumed lexicon containing the most important words related to a wide range of subjects (music, theater, politics, nature, crime, crime, reliogion, etc.) with short explanations, illustrated with quotations from ancient writers. It is suggested that Onomasticona were used in Wisdom writing, for example, Jb 28; 38-39; 41; Wisdom of Solomon 7:17-23; Sirach 43, etc. Each of these deals with knowledge of the wonders of nature. The Onomasticon of Eusebius, published about A.D. 328, is a treatise on the names and places of the Bible; it was translated into Latin by Jerome.
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As physicists know, electrons, W and Z particles have masses, but neutrinos and photons do not. I wonder somehow that it could be for some reason that neutrinos, and even photons do have masses so small which they have escaped any sort of detection so far. Though, I think these masses if they do exist would be quite different from the masses of electrons and W and Z particles, that is how not what would or should be expected if the symmetry among these particles were so manifest in nature.
