Warrior Class

[ualarauans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Michael Erwin <merwin at ...> wrote:
>
> Fourth-century Goths probably wouldn't associate mounted fighting
> with much greater status than dismounted fighting.

Not after 375, I guess.

> Sixth-century
> Goths would; Gothic heavy cavalry appears to have expanded its
> importance in the fifth century just as Roman heavy cavalry did.
> 
> I'd suggest either *kaballareis or *katafraktareis for the heavy
> cavalry in the sixth century.

Why not *katafraktus? Or *kleibanareis (cf. "cataphracti equites quos 
clibanarios dictitant" in Ammianus Marcellinus)?

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