Re: [tied] Anybody knows Thracian here?

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From: "Mikhail Rossiyski" <rossiyski@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 3:44 PM
Subject: [tied] Anybody knows Thracian here?


>
> IŽd like to ask your opinion on the following subject: some authors
try
> to prove the Thracian origin of the famous Byzantine emperor Justinian
> by the fact that some members of his family (like the emperorŽs
nephiew
> Boraides or Passara, the 1st wife of his other nephiew Germanus) had
> Thracian names
>
> Do you think these names are really Thracian?
>
> Would be grateful for any comment on this item
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mikhail.-

I am not aware of these two names as being Thracian. Could you please
give more information about? In the "Secret History" of Procpoius an
another book which deals with life of Justinian I don't remember to have
seen such names.
I don't want to speculate on them since the second one "Passara" can be
too easy linked to Latin "Passer" or romanian "Pasãre"= bird.
As for the foreign origin of the Roman Emperors, there is wellknown that
begining with Traian almost all Cesars have been born somewhere else.
Justinian shouldn't be the only thracian who became Cezar, just one of
many.