08-07-2010, 07:15 PM
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To all members in this discussion - relax! This is a very old - and unsolved - discussion, so please give up trying to resolve this here. You won't succeed.
Please do not make ad hominem attacks here either. No one here knows how many any other member has read, so please refrain from such remarks.
To all members in this discussion - relax! This is a very old - and unsolved - discussion, so please give up trying to resolve this here. You won't succeed.
Please do not make ad hominem attacks here either. No one here knows how many any other member has read, so please refrain from such remarks.
Quote:Also, it's quite unfair to dismiss this evidence 'because it's from the Roman period'. I imagine that you can tell us a good number of names from the pre-Roman period (that is, taken from other sources than Roman)?Quote:Antonio Tovar has an interesting article on this, if you read SpanishSorry, it looks very unconvincing to me. Outdated perspective and outdated scholarship (well, the article itself was first(?) published in 1977).
And it confirms my position above. Those names are from the Roman period.
Quote:What names I can trace from this list they show up in inscriptions dated after the Roman conquest (with recognizable Latin morphology and even derivation, e.g. Celticus), therefore this onomastic sample may be entirely irrelevant to pre-Roman identities. They could have get such names from the conquering RomansAre you really suggesting thaat these names are Roman and unconnected to a Celtic linguistic group? I find that extremely difficult to believe.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
