Re: [tied] Re: Bulgarica

From: george knysh
Message: 24657
Date: 2003-07-18

--- fortuna11111 <fortuna11111@...> wrote:
>
>
> 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.

*****GK: Eva, Eva, you are really making this too easy
(:=)). Remember just who was a "Roman citizen" back in
Cicero's time and who was not... And if we jump
forward some 250 years we get Caracalla's Edict of
course (forget the slaves) but no one would
reinterpret the realities of 50 BC in connection with
the situation that "evolved" in the meantime.*****


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