Re: [tied] Re: Daci

According to Ovid's own report he once wrote a poem in Getic while in exile; he also boasted of his fluency in Getic and Sarmatian (though it is not clear if he actually spoke those languages or some kind of Greek-based creole of the northwest Pontic coast. Anyway, the Getic poem did not survive, and there are no Getic or Sarmatian words (other that tribal names) in his Latin poems.

Piotr

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From: altamix

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Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:54 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Daci

Maybe is a very laborius work to do , but we remember Ovid said, he used a lot of getic words in his work. So, for myself i am not able to take every word of Ovid and to make an analyse of it for determining if this one is a latin one or a getic one. I have no ideea if such a work is already done somewhere. But it is for sure a way to find out

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