Re: [tied] Affects of immigrant communities in language change
From: Joseph S Crary
Message: 8423
Date: 2001-08-10
Herodotus, The Histories
1.7.3
hoi de proteron Agrônos basileusantes tautês tês chôrês êsan apogonoi
Ludou tou Atuos, ap' hoteu ho dêmos Ludios eklêthê ho pas houtos,
proteron Mêiôn kaleomenos.
Rendering
However, before Agrônos, the kings of this region were born of Ludou,
son [of] Atuos, from whom the land Ludios, these all say, [were]
before called Mêiôn.
Traditional Rendering
The kings of this country before Agron were descendants of Lydus, son
of Atys, from whom this whole Lydian district got its name; before
that it was called the land of the Meii.
JS Crary