Re: [tied] Re: Celts/Gauls

Tore:

> > 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.

Yes, I thought they were Bastarnae also. When you say he's jumped to
conclusions, I am assuming you mean in the last two sentences, which seem
to be kind of his interpretation, but he was refering to a Roman source
refering to Germani, and so I guess these Bastarnae may have been
Germani, of course we don't know for sure what language(s) they were
speaking at the time.

-Michael

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