From: george knysh
Message: 64640
Date: 2009-08-08
--- On Fri, 8/7/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> GK: For the Romans "Sarmatia" ended at the Vistula. I
> think that the corrupted Pliny passage may have omitted something
> between its "Sarmatis Venedis" and its "Scirris Hirris", like a
> "deinde" or something similar.
So it would have read ... ?
****GK: It would be presumptuous of me to adequately rewrite Pliny. But I assume the text might have been something like this:
97 quidam haec habitari ad Vistlam usque fluvium a Sarmatis
> Venedis,[deinde a?...] Sciris(,?) Hirris tradunt, sinum Cylipenum vocari...****
> I think the Scirri probably referred (in this source, whatever it
> was) to the Yastorf or Elbe G. population east of the Codanus on
> the Baltic, and west of the Vistula.****
So these Scirii were something else?
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Scirii
****GK: I would think that these migrated from the Scirian heimat on the Baltic.****