touch of my fingers, all moved their heads and their full quivers, and there was a
long murmur on the lips of the Getae) (Wheeler 1939) (Pontic Epistles IV,
Epistles XIII).
Therefore, the great poet Ovid abundantly attested that not only did the Getae
from Tomis have a poetic sensibility, but they were also endowed with the natural
habit in cultivating poetry. Ovid wrote verses in their language, being determined
just by this peremptory reality.
A Romanian scholar from the nineteenth century justifiably wondered: “What
did Ovid’s poems become? How much light did they shed on Dacian history and
language, on everything related to our Dacia? They are lost forever and only the
Latin writings of this illustrious author reveal the fact that they existed”
(Papadopol-Calimah 2007).
Indeed, the existence of these verses written by Ovid in the language of the
Romanian ancestors would have represented a peremptory testimony of the GetoDacian language and culture from Scythia Minor (Dura ˘ 2006). Here, the ProtoRomanians’ Apostle, i.e. St. Andrew, martyred in Patras (Greece) in the year
60 p. Chr., brought Christ’s light. Here, the famous “Scythian monks” from the
fifth-sixth centuries p. Chr. n. (founders of the European medieval culture, whose
theological, historical, philosophical works etc. – retained in Patrologia Orientalis
– includes several volumes) were born, studied and carried out their activities.
Or, in Romanian specialized literature, all that is known about these exceptional
scholars of Proto-Romanian culture is due largely to Patrologia (Greek and Latin),
edited by J. D. Migne, because Patrologia Orientalis remained only at the reach of
some specialized researchers. However, we hope that, one day, we will be able to
find that the Textbooks and Treaties from the History of Literature, Theology,
History, Philosophy, Patrology etc. will also expressly refer to the texts published in
Patrologia Orientalis. Only in this way the work of the famous scholars known to
Rome since “illo tempore” as the “Scythian monks” (Dura ˘ 2003, 2004, 2009),
i.e. from Scythia Minor (today’s Romanian Dobrogea, and their homeland in times
past) – where some of the founders of the European medieval culture, recte the
erudite scholars John Cassian ({ 435) (Mititelu 2011, 2012; Dura ˘ 2010a) and
Dionysius Exiguus ({ 545) (Dura ˘ 1989, 1993) also lived, studied and wrote – will
be better known both in their native homeland and in Europe.
4.3 The Latin and the Getic Languages and Their Common
Linguistic Trunk
Among others, the linguists’ latest research confirms the fact that the “Getic”
language had a lexical fund very similar to that of the language spoken by the
Etruscans from Latium, which allowed Ovid to learn the “Getic” language so fast.
Nowadays, such a similarity is revealed by the two neo-Latin languages, Romanian
and Italian.
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long murmur on the lips of the Getae) (Wheeler 1939) (Pontic Epistles IV,
Epistles XIII).
Therefore, the great poet Ovid abundantly attested that not only did the Getae
from Tomis have a poetic sensibility, but they were also endowed with the natural
habit in cultivating poetry. Ovid wrote verses in their language, being determined
just by this peremptory reality.
A Romanian scholar from the nineteenth century justifiably wondered: “What
did Ovid’s poems become? How much light did they shed on Dacian history and
language, on everything related to our Dacia? They are lost forever and only the
Latin writings of this illustrious author reveal the fact that they existed”
(Papadopol-Calimah 2007).
Indeed, the existence of these verses written by Ovid in the language of the
Romanian ancestors would have represented a peremptory testimony of the GetoDacian language and culture from Scythia Minor (Dura ˘ 2006). Here, the ProtoRomanians’ Apostle, i.e. St. Andrew, martyred in Patras (Greece) in the year
60 p. Chr., brought Christ’s light. Here, the famous “Scythian monks” from the
fifth-sixth centuries p. Chr. n. (founders of the European medieval culture, whose
theological, historical, philosophical works etc. – retained in Patrologia Orientalis
– includes several volumes) were born, studied and carried out their activities.
Or, in Romanian specialized literature, all that is known about these exceptional
scholars of Proto-Romanian culture is due largely to Patrologia (Greek and Latin),
edited by J. D. Migne, because Patrologia Orientalis remained only at the reach of
some specialized researchers. However, we hope that, one day, we will be able to
find that the Textbooks and Treaties from the History of Literature, Theology,
History, Philosophy, Patrology etc. will also expressly refer to the texts published in
Patrologia Orientalis. Only in this way the work of the famous scholars known to
Rome since “illo tempore” as the “Scythian monks” (Dura ˘ 2003, 2004, 2009),
i.e. from Scythia Minor (today’s Romanian Dobrogea, and their homeland in times
past) – where some of the founders of the European medieval culture, recte the
erudite scholars John Cassian ({ 435) (Mititelu 2011, 2012; Dura ˘ 2010a) and
Dionysius Exiguus ({ 545) (Dura ˘ 1989, 1993) also lived, studied and wrote – will
be better known both in their native homeland and in Europe.
4.3 The Latin and the Getic Languages and Their Common
Linguistic Trunk
Among others, the linguists’ latest research confirms the fact that the “Getic”
language had a lexical fund very similar to that of the language spoken by the
Etruscans from Latium, which allowed Ovid to learn the “Getic” language so fast.
Nowadays, such a similarity is revealed by the two neo-Latin languages, Romanian
and Italian.
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