Re: [tied] to George Knysh

--- altamix <altamix@...> wrote:

> Unfortunately I dont have the text from Strabon hier
> at hand.
> I tried to take a look but so quick I could find
> just the text from
> Theodor Mommsen ( I assume you belive he is a
> historician who used
> the right sources).> Theodor Mommsen Book 8 from

History of Rome

> Capitel 6
>
> German here
>

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> die Geten oder
> Daker am anderen Donauufer alle eine und dieselbe
> Sprache redeten. Es
> hatte diese Sprache in dem roemischen Kaiserreich
> eine aehnliche
> Stellung wie die der Kelten und der Syrer. Der
> Historiker und
> Geograph der augustischen Zeit, Strabo, erwaehnt die
> Gleichheit der
> Sprache der genannten Voelker;////

*****GK: My understanding of this is that Mommsen
underlines (following Strabo) the closeness if not
identity of Getan and Dacian (and more generally
Thracian). He compares them to Celtic and Syrian as
"local" languages of the Empire in their areas. But I
see nothing here to indicate an identity of Latin,
Celtic,Thracian, and Geto-Dacian.*****

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