From: alex
Message: 35765
Date: 2005-01-03
> --- alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:For your question: why "Dux" since first it is called "capio". Beside of
>
> about the "Cronica di Ragusa", which allegedly
> mentions Vlachs from "Dacia" s.a. 744.
>
> I'm not sure that's what is meant there. S.a. 743 we
> read about the arrival of Vlachs (Murlachi). And in
> that connection are told about their organization
> ("fra li quali era uno capio supra tuti" (the Vlach
> "Godfather"?(:=)) just kidding)
> And then s.a. 744 we read about "homeni de Dogiu
> Valasi". Why translate this as "Vlachian men from
> Dacia" rather than "men of the leader ("Dogiu") of the
> Vlachians"?