From: tgpedersen
Message: 62434
Date: 2009-01-10
>Vennemann has tried to give an explanation:
>
> 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
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> may be Basque Zordu = owe
> can come from soldurii < zordurii > zordu
> which means Sotiates tribe spoken Proto-vascoid (?)
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> 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].
>