The Europa Barbarorum Quotes Project

[oudysseos]

Heh- that's a good one, Desert. Can't use it of course.

John117 - Did you take your advil? 'Cos the issue is really very simple: my goal is to confirm the original sources of our quotes, mate, not to throw in spurious "quotes" just because the sound cool. Your 'Spartans answering if' (which you cut-and-pasted from Wikipedia) is probably a paraphrase or mistranslation (by Norman Davies, I believe) of the Plutarch quote that I posted above: it's like "Play it again Sam", something that everybody thought was said but actually never really was. But if you can find the Greek text that's another story.

No original text (or accurate reference to same) = not in game.


Oh by the way, I have found the likely sources for the controversial Celtic quotes (although I have not tracked down the quotes themselves yet), and I have even found reference to the infamous 'Cycle of Don'. But the issue of Celtic quotations hasn't changed: there is no literature contemporary to our period: the earliest Irish manuscripts are 12th century, though they contain texts said to be copied from the 6th century on, these are still a good 700 years too late for us. I will put up some examples of the earliest Old Irish poetry but we probably won't use it.


I have a usable collection of quotes for EB2, although I will be happy to add to it if someone finds something really good. I have included many/most of the legitimate suggestions from this thread, as well as some surprises from our internal quotes thread. However, since it'll be a long wait, I am putting the finishing touches on a new quotes.txt for EB1. Coming soon!

P.S. John117? The latin in your joke is still wrong. 'Mihi martinum da'