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for I wish to show by these references, that there was a ge- neral impression among both the ancients and moderns with regard to the nomades, that some were very far removed from the rest of mankind, that they subsisted on milk, and were very frugal, note and the most just of men, and that all this was not the mere invention of Homer. 10
It is but just too that Apollodorus should give some
explanation respecting the Mysians mentioned in the Epic
poems of Homer, whether he takes them to be but people of
his feigning, when the poet says,
Of the close-fighting Mysians and the illustrious Hippemolgi, note
Iliad xiii. 5.
Let us pass over the early history of the Getae, and occupy ourselves with their actual condition. Boerebistas, one of the Getae, having taken the command of his tribe, reanimated the men who were disheartened by frequent wars, and raised them to such a degree of training, sobriety, and a habit of obedience to orders, that he established a powerful dominion within a few years, and brought most of the neighbouring states into subjection to the Getae. He at length became formidable even to the Romans, fearlessly crossing the Danube, and laying waste Thrace as far as Macedonia and Illyria; he also subdued the Kelts who live among the Thracians and Illyrians, and thoroughly annihilated the Boii who were subject to Critasirus and the Taurisci. In order to
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