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those colonies which the Romans sent into this chap. 
country? For although the colony sent by 
Trajan were afterwards withdrawn, in great 
measure, by Karelian, to the southern side of 
the Danube, yet the introduction of thirty 
thousand persons into a district which did 
not exceed eighty leagues from east to ivest> 
and forty from north to south, and their resi- 
dence for so considerable a period upon a 
spot where there were hardly any other 
inhabitants at the time, may explain the exis- 
tence of their lan2:uas:e. What renders this 
the more probable is, that the present native 
inhabitants call themselves (Fojf^vv) Romans; 
pronouncing the word, like the Greeks, with 
the 0?nega\ 
In their customs, they retain many of the 
Wortcr Lateinisch, die andere halfte aber theils GiiecliHch theils 
Gothisch Oder Turkisch, besonders aber Slavisch ist." Mithridutes, 
p. 724. Berlin^ 1809. 
(3) This opinion has been also adopted by Adelung ; and it is surely 
the most obvious method of explaining the fact. "Sie nennen sich 
selbst Runumje order Rumukje, d. i. Rumer, weil sie zum theil von 
denjenigen Romischen Colonien abstammen, welche die Kaisers von 
zeit zu zeit hierher verpflanzten, und welche nebst alien freyen Unter- 
thanen des Reichs durch das Gesetz des Kaisers Caracalla 212 das 
Romische Biirgerrccht batten, daher sie gewisser Massen ein Recht, 
auf diesen Nahmeu haben." Milhridates, p. 723. Berlin, \8U9, 
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