Re: [tied] Re: Troj ( it was ancient sources)

> > > Is there any language beside Romanian where the word "troy-"
> will make a
> > > sense?
>>in Latin it
> >means a
> > mother ("mater") sow, with piglets.
> It does? Enlighten me. "Sus" and "porca" are all I can find for a
> sow, with or without pigs.

It does not occur in Classical literature, but is given by a scholiast on
Vergil, Aeneid 8:83ff, where Aeneas finds such a sow with piglets and
slaughters the lot of them. The point of the image is that he kills troia
/ Troia, signifying that at last he has turned his back on Troy, and is
ready to move forward to the foundation of Rome.

Peter