Re: Late

> >
> > Other than that, it's possible to fit all the facts into Kuhn's
> > world: an Italic *le:t- arrives in Tuscany with an Italic
> immigration
> > wave from Westphalia, and gets overlaid by the Etruscans arriving
> in
> > Tuscany.
> >
> >
> > Torsten
>
> When Marcus Aurelius was Emperor, a terrible plague destroyed

almost

> half the population of Insubria and of other areas in Northern

Italy.

> The Emperor established "laeti" from Marcomanni and Sarmati in

order

> to repeople deserted districts and to prevent agriculture abandon.
> But the word is more ancient and is listed in vocabularies of
> Classical Latin that don't list Medieval neologisms.

Do you have a quote of that early occurrence of Latin <laetus>?

Torsten