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97.
The empire of the Odrysians extended along
the seaboard from Abdera to the mouth of the Danube in the Euxine.
The navigation of this coast by the shortest route takes a merchantman four
days and four nights with a wind astern the whole way: by land an active
man, travelling by the shortest road, can get from Abdera to the Danube in
eleven days.
[2]
Such was the length of its coast line.
Inland from Byzantium to the Laeaeans and the Strymon, the farthest limit
of its extension into the interior, it is a journey of thirteen days for an
active man.
[3]
The tribute from all the barbarian districts and the Hellenic cities,
taking what they brought in under Seuthes, the successor of Sitalces, who
raised it to its greatest height, amounted to about four hundred talents in
gold and silver.
There were also presents in gold and silver to a no less amount, besides
stuff, plain and embroidered, and other articles, made not only for the
king, but also for the Odrysian lords and nobles.
[4]
For there was here established a custom opposite to that prevailing in the
Persian kingdom, namely, of taking rather than giving; more disgrace being attached to not giving when asked than to asking and
being refused; and although this prevailed elsewhere in Thrace, it was practised most
extensively among the powerful Odrysians, it being impossible to get
anything done without a present.
[5]
It was thus a very powerful kingdom; in revenue and general prosperity surpassing all in Europe between the
Ionian gulf and the Euxine, and in numbers and military resources coming
decidedly next to the Scythians,
[6]
with whom indeed no people in Europe can bear comparison, there not being
even in Asia any nation singly a match for them if unanimous, though of
course they are not on a level with other races in general intelligence and
the arts of civilized life.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- LSJ, αἰτ-έω
- LSJ, βάρβα^ρος
- LSJ, δεύτερος
- LSJ, διά
- LSJ, δύνα^μις
- LSJ, ἑνδεκα^ταῖος
- LSJ, ἐξι^σ-όω
- LSJ, εὔζωνος
- LSJ, εὐδαιμον-ία
- LSJ, ἰσχ-ύς
- LSJ, λεῖος
- LSJ, μέγα^ς
- LSJ, ὅτι^
- LSJ, ὁμογνωμ-ονέω
- LSJ, ὁμοι-όω
- LSJ, οὐ μήν,
- LSJ, παραδυ^ναστεύω
- LSJ, περίπλοος
- LSJ, πρόσοδος
- LSJ, προσάγω
- LSJ, προσφέρω
- LSJ, πρύμν-α^
- LSJ, στρογγύλος
- LSJ, σύνεσις
- LSJ, σύντομ-ος
- LSJ, τελέω
- LSJ, τρεισκαίδεκα
- LSJ, ὑφαν-τός
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