--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Mikhail Rossiyski <rossiyski@...>
wrote:
>
> I´d 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 emperor´s
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.-
If this helps, a Google search for "Boraides" turned up, besides
the Emperor's nephew, the gravestone from Palestine of an obscure
seven-year-old boy.
http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/archaeology/berytus-
back/berytus08/plate-x.html
The author comments:
"The name of the boy who is here commemorated occurs thrice and is
written in three different ways. Giron thinks of a Thracian origin
of the name, since [Bour] "is found in many Thracian proper names,"
and he refers to Kretschmer's Einleitung in d. Geschichte d.
griechischen Sprache. This may be the case, but it is to be
remembered that [Boraides] is a known Greek name, and that this is
the form (varied by the itacism) which occurs in the last line of
our inscription".
Dan