Re: [tied] Herodot, definition of "barbarian language"

From: alexmoeller@...
Message: 16217
Date: 2002-10-13

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Herodot, definition of "barbarian
language"



In this passage, <barbaros> (<... e:san hoi Pelasgoi barbaron
glo:ssan hientes>) evidently = non-Hellenic.

Piotr



[Moeller]
thank you very much Piotr. The text from you is for sure a
more better piece to read as my poorly translation. The
conclusion remains. We do not learn something about the
langauge , we just learn .. it is not greek:)