In Edgar Allan Poe's story Bon-Bon (http://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/bonbonf.htm), the narrator says,
The starred note is θζενες, and it is Poe's.The Greeks at all events were right, he thought, who employed the same words for the mind and the diaphragm.*
I looked it up is several Greek dictionaries, both classical and modern, and couldn't find this word. Is anyone familiar with that word and can provide a translation? Something tells me that Poe's translation is either inaccurate or spoofed. Poe loved word play, so if there's some joke there that I missed, please let me know.
Thank you,
Syd