Last year, one of the songs that Roger McGuinn did for his Folk Den project was "Dives and Lazarus," based on Luke 16:19-31 (and sung to the tune "Kingsfold"). In the Bible, the rich man isn't named, but yester-day, I discovered why he's called Dives in the song.
As part of my self-assigned Latin homework, I lookt up the word divitias (riches) for a sentence I was translating. Among the adjacent glossary entries was dives, an adjective that means rich or wealthy. In the song, this adjective is used as a substantive: the "rich [man] and Lazarus."
