Re: Frankish origins

It might even be worse than I thought with Harmatta...

> > --- On Mon, 9/21/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> > ' In my paper "Iranier, Germanen und Römer im Mittleren
> > Donaubecken" I pointed out in 1960 that the immigration of the
> > Iazyges possibly took place at an earlier date as it was assumed so
> > far./.../ one might think that the immigration of the Yazyges into the
> > Hungarian low plain might have taken place much earlier than
> > assumed until now. Under this assumption the locus in Lucanius
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Annaeus_Lucanus
> > would be easier to understand, according to which the Yazyges at
> > his time had already lived for a century near Pannonia.

****GK: Could the "locus in Lucanius" be this:

et qui te laxis imitantur, Sarmata, (Pharsalia, I, 430)

Lucan wrote this in the late 50's CE. The epoch is just after Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon (49 BCE) (some 100+ years earlier). And this is what Harmatta interprets as above... Makes one wonder as to what Eusebius really said... *****