Originally posted by Sovius
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You know about a year ago I was reading "Marcellinus" (6th C.??). I don't exactly recall. It is Marcellinus who associates the "Sklavenoi" with the "Getae". The book in the local library is useful because it has the original Greek, and the English translation of it alongside it. One thing I noticed, back then, was how words were translated. The same Greek word appeared about six times throughout the work, with just a slight vowel variation of presumably the same word. The English translator, found that the word meant "Goths" on five occasions, and "Getae" on one occasion. The term "Getae" is an exact translation from the Greek, while the other terms a slight variations of this word, to which he designates "Goths". Strange stuff.
Let me do a bit of asking around. I know a few people who are fairly knowledgeable about the period who might have access to a microfiche of the Latin original.
Very insightful. What about the presence of the Illyrian languages in the region prior to the 6th Century AD? How should the research that Max Vasmer conducted be regarded in an age where the human genome has been unraveled, demonstrating quite a different path out of prehistory?
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