03-31-2014, 06:08 AM
Yes, Fik Meijer seems to have done a 2+2=9 there, as we know that Constans 'favored' blond German archers among his retinue over genuine officers, and Meijer assumes that Laniogaisus was both blond and an archer and not a Franco-Roman but a German captive. I guess we'll let him take his own Pfeifer-esque Leap to the Island of Conclusions on his own.
(http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~bcohen/phant...sions.html)
In answer to your previous question, I made an incautious leap myself in overtrusting Bowersock perhaps, attached here, where he lumps Langiogaisus in with 'subsequent Frankish commanders who exercised enormous power within the western empire.' I would love to know what his source is for including Laniogaisus in that list, as you are right, it's not in A.M. But he must have seen something.
(http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~bcohen/phant...sions.html)
In answer to your previous question, I made an incautious leap myself in overtrusting Bowersock perhaps, attached here, where he lumps Langiogaisus in with 'subsequent Frankish commanders who exercised enormous power within the western empire.' I would love to know what his source is for including Laniogaisus in that list, as you are right, it's not in A.M. But he must have seen something.
