Incentives and translation

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I had already decided to donate to the Minneapolis Public Library's John M. Ford Book Endowment, because it's something beneficial I can do in Mike's memory now (I signed my organ donor card, but hope that won't be relevant any time soon, and by definition I won't be around to know about it). Then papersky offered, among other incentives, that for a donation of $100 or more she'd put the donor's name into a book:

If your name works as Greek, Latin, Carthaginian or Lizardman, then into Our Sea, otherwise into Half A Crown.

Or, if you prefer, I can translate your name into Greek, Latin, Carthaginian or Lizardman.

I asked her to translate my name, and noted that while "Vicki" is Latinate, I had a preference for Greek. She noted that the Romans wouldn't have used "Victoria" as a name for a human, but the Greeks did use Nike. The name Jo came up with is, she says, not an actual Greek name, but it sounds entirely plausible: Rhodonike, Victory of Roses.

[I don't know if Jo's offer is still open: her most recent auction update post said at least through this past Monday. But the library will still be happy to accept donations.]