Re: Post-Postscript on Przeworsk

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> >
> > > GK: So why hint at this stupidity? We know very
> > > well that the recorded leader of the Suevian (just one
> > > Germanic group) incursion into Gaul of 72-58 BCE,
> > > Ariovistus, did not develop the Germanic language or
> > > literature, but rather learned to speak Gaulish
> > > fluently.
> >
> > Ariovist was a leader of a precursor to the
> > Przeworsk incursion; he
> > was unsuccessful and perished with his army, as you
> > very well know.
> > Don't pretend to be stupider than you are.
> >
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> ****GK: Your spittle notwithstanding, o learned janitor

I've made it a principle only to match, not surpass the tome of my
opponent.

> (though you've opened few doors, alas(:=)),

On the contrary, I would think.

> tell us just when "the Przeworsk incursion" occurred. I have
> follow-up comments and queries, "loathsome" ones
> (:=))).****
> >

Is this a trick question?
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/55022
When do you think they started to mingle?
We know from Tacitus that the people the Romans thought at first were
Germani were Tungri, ie people from Thuringia; the real Germani came
just after.


Torsten