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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
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> Syrgastes, Sergestes akin to Sergius ?
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https://ep.eur.nl/bitstream/1765/7686/1/Woudhuizen+bw.pdf
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To conclude, the main contribution of the Trojan
colonists is the introduction of the cult of their ancestral
gods, the Penates. Furthermore, there may be a grain of
truth in the tradition that leading families of Rome traced
their origin back to a Trojan follower of Aeneas, like the
Atii from Atys,355 Sergii from Sergestus356 a Phrygian
or Lydian name357 , and the Cluentii from Cloanthus,358
though the identification of Aeneas' son Ascanius with Iulus,
the ancestor of the Iulii, seems, on the basis of the
double naming, a little bit forced.359
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355 Vergilius, Aeneid V, 568-9; cf. Briquel 1991: 471-6.
356 Vergilius, Aeneid V, 121.
357 Beekes 2002: 214, with reference to Phrygian Surgastoy, see
Brixhe & Lejeune 1984: Dd-102, and Lydian Srkstu-, see Gusmani
1964, s.v. For the related Thracian Sergesteus, see Detschew 1976,
s.v.
358 Vergilius, Aeneid V, 122-3.
359 Vergilius, Aeneid I, 267, etc.
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Torsten