11-29-2004, 05:53 PM
Quote:</em></strong><hr>About the Latin names losing their "us" endings [...] doesn't that suggest barbarian influence since the army's ranks were increasingly being packed with barbarian recruits ?<hr><br>
I think it has more to do with the development of Latin into Italian. There is no suggestion that any 'barbaric' linguistic influence was the case here. If at all, the so-called 'barbarians' (i.e. non-Romans) switched to Latin more often than the other way round. Roman culture was never seen as something bad by the Germans (best forget 20th c. propaganda), but something they desired to share.<br>
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Valete,<br>
Valerius/Robert <p></p><i></i>
I think it has more to do with the development of Latin into Italian. There is no suggestion that any 'barbaric' linguistic influence was the case here. If at all, the so-called 'barbarians' (i.e. non-Romans) switched to Latin more often than the other way round. Roman culture was never seen as something bad by the Germans (best forget 20th c. propaganda), but something they desired to share.<br>
<br>
Valete,<br>
Valerius/Robert <p></p><i></i>
Robert Vermaat
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
