User talk:Soxenbridge

I have a small comment to make about the article on Hadrian.

"When Trajan, predecessor to Hadrian, consulted Apollodorus about an architectural problem, Hadrian interrupted to give advice, to which Apollodorus replied, "Go away and draw your pumpkins. You know nothing about these problems." "Pumpkins" refers to Hadrian's drawings of domes like the Serapeum in his Villa."

The problem i have is "Pumpkins". As pumpkins are from the Americas and they having not been discovered yet, i find this information must be incorrect. It could be a bad translation but at any case there were no pumpkins in Eurpoe at this time.

Below is from the article on Pumpkins

"The word pumpkin originates from the word pepon, which is Greek for “large melon.” The French adapted this word to pompon, which the British changed to pompion and later American colonists changed that to the word we use today, “pumpkin.” [2] The origin of pumpkins is not known, although pumpkins are thought to have originated in North America. The oldest evidence, pumpkin-related seeds dating between 7000 and 5500 B.C., were found in Mexico.[3][4] "

So it would have been reference to a melon, which would make more sense in the context.

Soxenbridge (talk) 05:53, 7 November 2008 (UTC)