Re: [tied] Allegedly attested Dacian & Illyrian "cerb-" [Re: Romani

dmilt1896@... wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:
>> gs001ns@... wrote:
>> Moesia Inferior , toponym: Cerbatis
>> Even Tomascheck mention this one with the specification the old
>> Callatis should have been called initialy "Cerbetis"
>> In fact conf. Plinius should have mentioned this one under the form
>> "Karbatis", "Kerbetis" ( no "th" there)( where exactly in Plinius,
>> I cannot tell since Tomascheck did not gave exactly where)
> _______
> [Book IV, 44] namque Thracia altero latere a Pontico litore
> incipiens, ubi Hister amnis inmergitur, vel pulcherrimas in ea parte
> urbes habet, Histropolin Milesiorum, Tomos, Callatim, quae antea
> Cerbatis vocabatur, Heracleam.

Dan, thank you for the passage of Plinius.
I am just a bit sad for this "allegedly", but that is life. One look
deep in the past, an another prefer to put everything on the shoulder of
Rome.