Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angl

--- On Wed, 11/5/08, bmscotttg <BMScott@...> wrote:

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> Anti-parallel, so to speak: the Romans admired Greek
> culture,
> and the borrowing went in the other direction, from Greek
> to
> Latin.
>
> Brian

****GK: There may have been a bit in the opposite direction from the 6th c. onwards. I'm not sure how much. Perhaps not too much, but specialists would know. When the Eastern Roman Empire became hellenized. It's interesting that the Byzantines consistently referred to themselves (in Greek) as "Romei" (obviously from the Latin "Romani"").****
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