RESUMEN: Se estudian las alusiones al método de correo utilizado en una carta del siglo XVII con comentarios negativos sobre el Buscón Quevedo. Tras un breve repaso los distintos sistemas transporte epistolar la época, análisis misiva revela uso mensajero particular (o propio) para su envío a destinatario noble. Este dato es relevante descartar hipótesis que fecha esa 1625, año antes primera ed...

This article examines the Greek noun σαγγάνδης ‘messenger’ which is attested in two lexica, dated to Roman or early Byzantine periods: Cambridge Rhetorical Lexicon by an anonymous author and Difficult Words Attic Orators Claudius Casilo. In both works, appears together with three words of likely Iranian provenance: ὀροσάγγης ‘benefactor Persian king; bodyguard’, παρασάγγης ‘parasang; messenger’...

designating imam ali (pbuh) as the successor of the messenger of allah (pbuh) is a source of shia-sunni split. to prove it, however, shia provides arguments found in the holy qur’an, hadith (tradition), wisdom, and history. it is worth to consider works of literature on the issue as well, yet little research has been done in this respect. this issue has been dealt with in the present article. a...