soldurii bodyguard

From: patrick cuadrado
Message: 62432
Date: 2009-01-10


hello
in bello Galico-Cesar "soldurii" name (sotiates/Aquitains warriors) means "body-guard", this word does'nt seem Celtic or maybe Sol- = to watch (?) = Corio-solites tribal name = watching troops
 
may be Basque Zordu = owe
can come from soldurii < zordurii > zordu
which means Sotiates tribe spoken Proto-vascoid (?)
 
 
XXII.--And while the attention of our men is engaged in that matter, in
another part Adcantuannus, who held the chief command, with 600 devoted
followers, whom they call soldurii (the conditions of whose association
are these,--that they enjoy all the conveniences of life with those to
whose friendship they have devoted themselves: if anything calamitous
happen to them, either they endure the same destiny together with them,
or commit suicide: nor hitherto, in the memory of men, has there been
found any one who, upon his being slain to whose friendship he had
devoted himself, refused to die); Adcantuannus, [I say] endeavouring to
make a sally with these, when our soldiers had rushed together to arms,
upon a shout being raised at that part of the fortification, and a
fierce battle had been fought there, was driven back into the town, yet
he obtained from Crassus [the indulgence] that he should enjoy the same
terms of surrender [as the other inhabitants].