48 A GLOSSARY OF LATER 



century.'"' The Gepidce are mentioned in connection witli the Avars, who made an 

 attempt upon Constantinople in the early part of the seventh century."'^ 



The Franks were a branch of the Germanic family.'"^ After they conquered the 

 country now called France,^^ the Byzantines confounded them with the Kelts and 

 Keltiberians.'"^ 



In the middle of the eleventh century the English appeared at Constantinople as 



mercenaries.'""^ 



The Goths, Vandals, and Gepidae made no permanent settlement in Greece, and 

 therefore their language had no effect upon the Greek. As to the small number of 

 words of Teutonic origin occurring in later and Byzantine writers, it may be a question 

 whether they were not taken directly from the Latin. Those found in modern Greek 

 most probably came from the German. See dpdSa, /SdvBov, /SepeSo? or /SepatSo?, fiovKka, 

 ^opBcov or ^ovpBcov, jSovTTK, yepdveov, yovXa, yowa, Spovjjo<;, IcraKa, 'ictku, KovpKovfiov, KovKOvpov, 

 fiovvTo^, fiovvT^a or fiov^a, vaKKa, irovyyiv, pov^ov, crKovcpta, T^ayyiov, ipapSv'}, in the Glossary. 



THE HUNNIC OR TATAR ELEMENT. 



§ 33. 



The Huns, Avars, Turks, and Bulgarians belonged to the same family. The first 

 three of these appellations are sometimes confounded by the Byzantines. 



The Hunns appeared in Europe in the latter part of the fourth century."' In the 

 middle of the fifth, they overran Thrace."^ About a hundred years later they proceeded 

 as far as Greece."" In the early part of the seventh century we find them before the 

 walls of Constantinople, in conjunction with the Avars.™ 



wi Pkoc. I, 335 (A. D. 429 - 477). 

 "2 THEorH. 485 (A. D. G17, true date 625). 

 . lo^ Pkoc. I, 319. 



"* *payy(Ki7, ^payyia. ThEOPH. 618. PORPH. Adm. 115. 



"5 SiMOC. 245. PoRPH. Them. 28, 12. 



^°^ See Bapayyoi, 'IyyX(c/a, 'lyyXhoi, 'lyxSiKos, 'lyxXivicrTi, 'lyxXivos, 'lyxXirfp, 'lyKKireppa, in the Glossary. 



"' EuNAP. 75 (A. D. 374). Prisc. 141. Smoc. 38 seq. Porph. Adm. 123. 



"' Theoph. 186 (A. D. 46C). 



w' Agath. 301 (A. D. 558). 



"" Theoph. 485 (A. D. 617). According to Theophylactus Simocates, the name 'A/Sa/jot was given also to 

 the inhabitants of Pannonia. Smoc. 283. 284. Nic. Const. 38, 19. Porphyi-ogenitus speaks of certain 

 Slavic tribes that were called 'A^apoi. Porph. Adm. 126. 141. 



