CHAT: Galatians and Celts

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, And Rosta wrote:

> The ordinary Classical and Vulgar Latin terms were _Livagia_ and the
> derived adjective _livagicus_. _Lyacia_ would have existed in learned
> speech, I believe, as a hellenizing form. _Lychagia_ is a later term,
> which I suspect may have been the principal one in Byzantine Greek and
> possibly in ecclesiastical Latin; St Paul is said to have written
> reprovingly a (lost) epistle to the Lychagians. But the equation "Lychagia
> = Livagia" is a historicolinguistic fact one has to learn, rather than
> something one takes for granted; it's comparable to the way one has to
> learn that the Galatians were (Anatolian) Celts.
As a child in Sunday School, I remember asking my teacher if the
Galatians were the Gauls. He didn't know.

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga
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