03-02-2007, 02:48 PM
Quote:Speidel mentions an identical designations (Gothi gentiles) for a unit in another inscription (CIL III 12483, Rumania), dated 337-340 AD - which again makes sense.
The full text:
Scythia Minor — Carcaliu — 337-340p. — CIL 3.12483
Imp[pp(eratores) Imperatores tres Caes(ares)] Fl(avius) Cl(audius) Constantinus Al[aman(icus) Max(imus), Goth(icus) Max(imus) et] Fl(avius) Iul(ius) Constantius Sarm(aticus) [Per]si[cu]s [Max(imus) et] [Fl(avius)] Iul(ius) Constans Sarm(aticus) pii, felices Aug(usti) locum in parte limitis positum gentilium Gotho[ru]m t[e]meritati semper aptissimum ad [co]nfirmandam provincialium [s]uorum [ae]ternam securitatem erecta istius fabr[ic]ae munitione clauserunt latru[nc]ulorumque impetum perennis mun[imi]nis dispositione tenuerunt adcurante Sappone v(iro) p(erfectissimo) duce limitis Scythiae.
Valete,
TITVS/Daniele Sabatini
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10