From: george knysh
Message: 24657
Date: 2003-07-18
>*****GK: Eva, Eva, you are really making this too easy
>
> Aren't you
> > > being a bit anachronistic in implying that the
> > > "something" which survived for 1300 years is the
> state
> > > founded by Asparukh?*****
> >
> > And the Slavs on the Balkan peninsula, and
> everyone who wanted to
> > take part.
>
> To illustrate my point, just thought of the
> following:
>
> Est igitur, inquit Africanus, res publica res
> populi, populus autem
> non omnis hominum coetus quoquo
> modo congregatus, sed coetus multitudinis iuris
> consensu et utilitatis
> communione sociatus. Eius autem coetus
> prima causa est non tam inbecillitas quam naturalis
> quaedam hominum
> quasi congregatio...
>
> I guess such ideas are not to be named the results
> of latter day
> political correctness.