[tied] Re: Oltak-original version

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> --- Abdullah Konushevci <a_konushevci@...>
> wrote:
> > > I am sorry, but it's hard to be always in hurry
> > (We have constant
> > > lack of electricity). It was Naturalis Historiae,
> > VII, 48(49). I
> > am
> > > trying to translate from one Albanian collection
> > of ancient
> > > authors: "According to Alexander Corneli, one
> > called Dandon from
> > > Illyria, lived 500 years". ("Ilirët dhe Iliria te
> > autorët antikë",
> > > Rilindja, Prishtina, 1979, po. 196.)
> > > > Konushevci
> > And, at least, original version:
> > 155 Ephorus Arcadum reges tricenis annis, Alexander
> > Cornelius
> > Dandonem quendam in Illyrico D vixisse, Xenophon in
> > periplo
> > Lutmiorum insulae regem DC atque, ut parce mentitus,
> > filium eius
> > DCCC. quae omnia inscitia temporum acciderunt. annum
> > enim alii
> > aestate determinabant et alterum hieme, alii
> > quadripertitis
> > temporibus, sicut Arcades, quorum anni trimenstres
> > fuere, quidam
> > lunae scenio, ut Aegyptii. itaque apud eos et
> > singula milia annorum
> > vixisse produntur.
>
> *****GK: Thanks for the correction and the Latin
> version. You beat me by two minutes. I was about to
> post the on-line excerpt from Pliny. So the name is
> "Dando".*****

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Why do You belive that the name is Dando, -nis and not Dandon.
Probably You mean that it's of Latin origin. There are also river
name Drilon < Drinon in Illyria, city name Meteon also in Illyria
(today Medun in Monte Negro). I am just curios.

Konushevci

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