From: alex_lycos
Message: 19626
Date: 2003-03-06
> --- alex_lycos <altamix@...> wrote:George, weren't you the one who spooked about cimmerian toponyms like
>> 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.*****