Re: [tied] Re: about milk

From: alex_lycos
Message: 19626
Date: 2003-03-06

george knysh wrote:
> --- alex_lycos <altamix@...> wrote:
>> It seems they appear just at Homer.Hippemolgi
>> People from Scythia and
>> Sarmatia [Hom.Il.13.5].How commes Lidell to speak
>> about "tartar"? Which
>> are the reasons to consider the Hippemolgi as being
>> tartars??
>
> *****GK: Plain old anachronism. Nothing more complex
> If one dates the Iliad as 8th c. BC then these
> "hippemolgi" would be Cimmerians.*****


George, weren't you the one who spooked about cimmerian toponyms like
Mallorosso or something like this? They should be found somewhere in the
work of a Slavic scholar, Oleg T.. hmm, a scholar who should have died
recently, I forgot this name:(
Do you remember about?