02-22-2010, 02:10 PM
I guess, though I'm not a linguist, that usage of a word will cause it to have a specific meaning after a period of time. For the sake of this argument, substitute "curved" for falcata.
As was already mentioned "lorica segmentata" would probably have raised curious eyebrows in the 1st Century legion. No doubt they had some name for it, but we don't know what it was, right?
BTW, in a previous entry, I was totally wrong about the ending for saunion, since it's a Greek word, it doesn't need to follow Latin grammar rules at all, does it? :oops: :wink:
Quote:Though Celtiberians used the curved, various straight swords were commonerIt could be that we're just dealing with an untranslated word, used in a way that the ancients would consider incorrect, but we have come to accept as normal. Regardless of what we call them, the nomenclature isn't something that ought to cause us to unsheath them and go to war. :!:
As was already mentioned "lorica segmentata" would probably have raised curious eyebrows in the 1st Century legion. No doubt they had some name for it, but we don't know what it was, right?
BTW, in a previous entry, I was totally wrong about the ending for saunion, since it's a Greek word, it doesn't need to follow Latin grammar rules at all, does it? :oops: :wink:
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
