Re: Bastarnae - Scordisci, similar languages

From: dgkilday57
Message: 65324
Date: 2009-10-29

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita XL, 57
> 'the Scordisci will let the Bastarnae pass without difficulty; their languages and customs are, after all, very similar, and the Scordisi may well join up with the Bastarnae, seeing that the latter are going in search of spoils to a very wealthy people' (quoted from Shchukin).
> Latin: 'nec enim aut lingua aut moribus [aequales] abhorrere',
> http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/livy/liv.40.shtml#57
> "not dissimilar" is probably better.

Yes, not HORRIBLY dissimilar ... the name Cotto, if not merely a Koseform, is interesting in regard to our never-ending quest to explain Chatti and Mattium.

DGK