Re: Torsten's theory reviewed

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> >
> > Ariovistus himself only says that his
> > > own
> > > > people (the original 15,000 of what had become
> a
> > > > "German" force of some 120,000 by 58 BCE) had
> been
> > > in
> > > > Gaul since ca. 72 BCE,
> > > OK.
> > > > and that they had left their
> > > > home AND THEIR PEOPLE to seek success in Gaul.
>
> > >
> > > Where in DBG?
> >
> > GK: DBG 1.44.2: "transisse* Rhenum sese non
> sua
> > sponte, sed rogatum et arcessitum* a Gallis; non
> sine*
> > magna* spe magnisque praemiis* domum propinquosque
> > reliquisse; "
>
> He. A. talks of himself. And 'propinquos' "those
> nearest" are his
> relatives.

****GK: DBG 1.36.6-7: "neminem secum* [=Ariovistus
GK]sine sua pernicie contendisse. [7] Cum vellet,
congrederetur*: intellecturum quid invicti Germani,
exercitatissimi in armis, qui inter* annos XIIII
tectum non subissent, virtute possent." He is talking
about himself and his troops. Ditto in 1.44. And
"propinqui" means "neighbours" as well as "relatives".
An army of 15,000 has plenty of both. EMDW.****

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