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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:
> Does anyone knows more about the toponym in the neighbourhood of
> Durostorum ( or is an another name for durostorum?) which is
called by
> Procopius "Mauroballe"?
>
> Alex
Are we off on a wild goose chase through Greek "Mauros", Iranian-
Croatian color--direction symbolism, and God knows what else,
because Alex's reading is as careless as his typing often is?
At:
http://soltdm.tripod.com/Surse/Literare/Procopius/IndexNominum.htm
there is a list of all place names in "De Aedificiis." One of
them (transliterating from the Greek)is
"Manroballe" with the third letter NU not UPSILON, referenced at
148.46.
I don't have a "De Aedificiis" handy and the text doesn't seem to be
on the Web. Alex or some other kind person check the text. Is it
Mauroballe or Manroballe?
Dan