05-30-2016, 10:33 PM
(05-30-2016, 10:15 PM)John1 Wrote: does anyone else combine latin and greek in this way?
I don't think so.
Some place names in Britain may combine Latin and native British words, but why use a strange hybrid of Latin and Greek, which doesn't seem to mean much, when there's a perfectly good Latin word (tropaeum) for what it's supposed to describe?
The Ravenna Cosmography has quite a lot of garbled place names, some of which are close enough to better-attested names known in other sources that we can be pretty sure of what they're supposed to be. This one seems likely to be the same sort of thing.
Nathan Ross