[tied] Re: Celts/Gauls

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Michael J Smith <lookwhoscross-
eyednow@...> wrote:

> Hi Toresten:
>
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:52:16 -0000 "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> writes:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Michael J Smith <lookwhoscross-
> > eyednow@...> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Also, aren't Germani mentioned at Clastidium in 222 B.C. ?
> > > -Michael
> > >
> >
> > Tell me about it.
>
> From Peter Berresford Ellis in his book "The Celtic Empire":
>
> "The Roman Acta Triumphalia says that Marcus Claudius Marcellus

gained

> the spolia opima, spoils of honour, for slaying Viridomar and

triumphing

> 'over the Insubrian Celts and the Germans'. Now the Germans at
> Clastidium were not there as invaders, nor were they fighting for

their

> own lands. Indeed, they were fighting under a Celtic commander

with a

> Celtic army."
>
> -Michael

From what I found elsewhere on the net, if this is so, they were
Bastarnae. Your writer seems to have jumped to conclusions.

Torsten