Re: [tied] for you Piotr

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

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>> it remains open what whanted the romans mean with "dacia ripensis" in
>> this case. As they gave thisname in the II century i guess the
>> meaning of Ripensis was as in dictionary given as fallow:
>> ripa=shore, shore of a river, shore of a sea.
>
> No. Latin dictionaries translate ri:pensis as 'situated or stationed
> on a river's bank'.
>
>

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.
0059%3Aentry%3D%2341777

>
> The name means "Riverside Dacia" (the river being the Danube, of
> course).
>
> Piotr

yeap. in this case the romans have keept their normaly word and meant
with Dacia Ripensis how you say, Riverside Dacia.
It seems curios that just one is Riverside but well, strange people
these romans. Moesia Superior, Moesia Inferior, Dacia Ripensis, they
have been all along Donau.. :))