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G. is a collective noun attested in various regions of Europe and West Asia and was disseminated, at least in part, by the migrations of splinter groups. Linguistically, Germanic belongs to the Indo-European language family ( Germanic languages); the term ‘Germanic’ was attributed from outside. Countering popular, Romantically influenced ideas that assumed a parallelism of language and material culture, as well as a lasting ethnic constancy, and countering an inherently racist concept of the uni…

G. ist ein in verschiedenen Gegenden Europas und Westasiens nachweisbarer Gemeinname, der mindestens z.T. durch Wanderungen von Splittergruppen verbreitet worden sein wird. Sprachlich gehört das German. zur indoeuropäischen Sprachfamilie (Germanische Sprachen), wobei die Bezeichnung “Germanisch” von außen herangetragen wurde. Entgegen durch romantischen Volksgeist geprägten Vorstellungen, die von einer Parallelität von Sprache und Sachkultur sowie dauerhafter ethnischer Konstanz ausgehen, und en…

(Κάρος, Κάκυρος; Káros, Kákyros). Celtiberian from Segeda, general of several Iberian tribes and towns that defeated the army of the consul Q.  Fulvius [I 17] Nobilior on 23/ 8/153 BC. The Roman prohibition of building a wall around Segeda caused the confrontation. C. was killed while pursuing the enemy (App. Ib. 45; Diod. Sic. 31,39; Flor. Epit. 1,34 [Megaravicus]).  Hispania Spickermann, Wolfgang (Bochum) [German version] [2] Poet friend of Ovid A poet friend of  Ovid (Pont. 4,13 is addressed to him; 3,5 in the Tristiae, where the identity of the respective addressees is con…