On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:35:33PM -0500, Tom Parmenter wrote:
Of course, that was a contribution to the mailing list,
not the
Wikipedia, but I did look it up first. The Oxford English Dictionary
and Grimm are a little bit more reliable than Tacitus for the meaning
of words, don't you think? And, of course, Latin picked up words from
other languages, such as Celtic. Tacitus may have been right, but I
did not make it up. Why would I have done that?
Tacitus was "on the ground" so to speak. He referenced his sources, and
did a lot of legwork. He is the closest thing to a reliable, first-hand
witness we have. I don't care to spend a lot of time debunking modern
historical revisionists who have political axes to grind.
Jonathan
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