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CHAT: Galatians and Celts

From:dirk elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>
Date:Thursday, April 6, 2000, 15:43
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 -- Dirk Elzinga dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu