Antes==An(ak)tes/Anakes=Anaktes

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Citation
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Plutarch, LIVES
( TRANSLATED  WITH NOTES HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL LIFE OF PLUTARCH BY JOhN LANGHORNE M.D. AND WILLIAM LANGHORNE M.A. CAREFULLY CORRECTED AND PRINTED FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION IN FOUR VOLUMES VOL I Philadelphia, JAMES CRISSY No 4 MINOR STREET 1834)

also  http://books.google.ro/books?id=OOm_TA9OoZYC&dq=anakes&lr=&pg=PP9&ci=139%2C1421%2C617%2C209&source=bookclip 
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"... This request was easily granted them and they were adopted by Aphidnus as Hercules was by Pylias They had also divine honours paid them with the title of Anakes which was given them either on account of the truce (anoche) which they made or because of their great care that no one should be injured though there were so many troops in the city for the phrase anakós cchein signifies to keep or take care of any thing and 

for this reason perhaps kings  called Anaktes.

 Some again say they were called Anakes because of the appearance of their stars for the Athenians used the word ane cas and aneka hen instead of ano and anothen that is above or on high ..."
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Discussion

The Anaktes title of Getic Basilei may be also bound to the Dioscuri pattern, i.e. a horse/rider with spear, which appears on most of the Dacian and Scythian coins (attributed to Scordisci="Danubian Celts" and Scythian kings) or as the "Thracian knight" appearing on tombs and has an astronomic significance also:Castor and Pollux bright stars, appearing only half of the year with the legend of the Dioscuri making shifts in Hell and Heaven; Castor is good at horse breeding and riding. This connects to the Apotheosis and burrial mounds and ressurection beliefs.

In latin the equivalent is Dominus and Voievod(Voyevoda) - in romanian - meaning "I allow you=Voie va dau(a da voie==to allow; va=to you ", fitting the Greek Anakes as eplained by Plutarch, abreviated as Voda/Wodan. 

In connection with the name Gotha, I presume "Goth" is the German translation of the Ankes/Voda/Basileus/Dominus title as Goth/ Gott-half God and not as a distorsion of Get. Since Gepids,Vizigoths and Ostrogoths intermarried, the original geographic meaning of Goth(as a native German person) instead Get disappeared. 

Te significance of the titles of the Basilei of the 3 getic kingdoms  is clearly connected to their adoration hails:

- Dacia/Gepidia has a town called Apullum, more recently Alba Iulia (probably the title of the Basileus was Iulius Maximus, moked by the Hungarians as "Gyula". It is also clear that the title of "Iulius" and the light associated with the Dioscuri match; the pileus of the Dioscuri matches the phrigian caps of Dacian tarabostes and the "pileati" of Iordanes ). Dracia/Dacia -from their flag like the carnyx, yields Teufel/Teufeliaia in German i.e. the "Taifali" 

- Vizigoths(The peerest goths, from Rom. vaza/lat. Vedere), translated in German yields Therrwingi(old Saxon root Thewes-manners customs),

- Ostrogoth(Illustruous goths rom. lustra/lat lustra -meaninig shining) translates in German as Greuthungi(old Saxon groetin, like greeting in English)

Merry Christmas and Happy new Year to all

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