03-12-2012, 07:56 PM
Quote:The first EVER Latin instance is dated precisely to 269 via the Coinage of Claudius ... well Claudius GothicusIndeed. I cannot find anything that predates the AD 260s ... apart from the mention of Gordian III and the Gwt W Grm'ny (Greek: Γούθθων τε καὶ Γερμανῶν ἐθνῶν) in Shapur's so-called Res Gestae Divi Saporis of the AD 240s (?).
Certainly nothing as early as Caracalla.
Quote:That is not withstanding possible Tacitean forerunners, of course.:lol: