"Goth"

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/12/00 2:19:08 AM Mountain Standard Time,
X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

>Basically, the word "Goth" apparently clearly first appears in Greek about
250BC.  That is when it is applied to the "Goths" just north of the Danube.
It seems that in Greek at this earlier time, it is written <Guto:nes> or
<Guthoi>.

-- there were no Goths just north of the Danube in 250 BCE.  At that time the
ancestors of the Goths were in eastern Germany and Poland.  The first
historical attestation of the Goths has them in the Vistula valley in the
first few centuries CE, after which they moved into the Ukraine and the
Danube valley.