Alex Cerioli wrote: |
Then you're telling me that the sword used by these guys:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons..._01%29.jpg Is the same sword used by those other guys: http://www.roma-victrix.com/armamentarium/img...ata01b.jpg And a Roman soldier of the 2nd century would have used the same word to indicate these two weapons? And that a certain time the Romans for no reason whatsoever started to call the gladii spathae? |
No, Dan stated that the words do not have a different meaning. E.g. automobile and car can be used interchangeably (you sound pretty old fashioned if you say automobile). I cannot speculate on why the terminology changed but I also cannot assume a change in terminology indicates a change in meaning.