From: Daniel J. Milton
Message: 26827
Date: 2003-11-02
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
Are these "Lets" mentioned by 297 the
> actual Lets and Lithuanians?
> Eumenii Panegyricus Constantino Cesari dictus, c.21:
> "tuo, Maximiane Auguste nutu, Nerviorum et Treverorum arva iacentia
> Laetus postliminio restitutus .... excoluit"
>
> It should be meant about the some lands which the lets got back in
the
> teritorium of Nervins and Tervins.
> (Theses Tervins, should be the Tervins of Thorsten sicne the action
> which is storied by Eumenii Pan. should happen in the teritorium of
> Germania ).
>
> Alex
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Alex, are you serious about Letts in this quotation?
I translate it as something like "At thy nod, Maximianus Augustus,
the joyous [one], restored to his rights, cultivated the fields of
the Nervii and Treveri."
Laetus certainly seems the word "joyful" (< *pri- ? -- my Pokorny
isn't responding). Or do you want to make the Letts be "The Joyous
People?"
Dan