From: alex
Message: 22488
Date: 2003-06-02
>Amianus Marcelinus speaks about a part of the carps who settled in
> *****GK: Ammianus Marcellinus further tells us that
> the Carpi were settled in Pannonia by Diocletian
> (28.1.5: Carporum, quos antiquis excitos sedibus
> Diocletianus transtulit in Pannoniam). This event is
> dated 295 AD. The later fate of these Carpi is not
> recorded. Pannonia was subjected to much "barbarian"
> depredation in the later 4th and in the 5th centuries.
> An Ossetian-like scenario (a "head for the hills"
> superimposition of "Dacian" colonists upon Illyrian
> locals) is entirely possible if speculative.*****