12-08-2006, 07:21 AM
Quote:Maybe then we might venture that they called themselves 'Gauls'? Even if they did not know they belonged to one people, the name might have held some meaning, so that celts in modern France as well as modern Turkey called themselves 'Gauls'?
I know, at least, that for the tribes that made up the Galatians, they did not call themselves Galatians- that was a purely Greek title, from the Greek word Galatae. The invading tribes (Tolistobogii, Aigosages, Trocmi, etc.) perhaps called themselves Celts, but mainly seem to have identified themselves as their individual tribes.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
