AGATHYRSI  , a See also:

• PEOPLE

people of Thracian origin, who in the earliest See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical times occupied the See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain of the Marls (Maros), in the region now known as Transylvania . Thyrsi is supposed to be a Scythian See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of T pavoot (Trausi), a Thracian tribe mentioned by Stephanus of See also:

• BYZANTIUM

Byzantium . They are described by See also:

• HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus (iv . 104) as of luxurious habits, wearing See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold ornaments (the See also:

• DISTRICT

district is still auriferous) and having wives in See also:

• COMMON

common . They tattooed their bodies (picti, Aeneid iv . 136), degrees of See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank being indicated by the manner in which this was done, and coloured their See also:

• HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair dark See also:

• BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

blue . Like the Gallic See also:

• DRUIDS, ORDER OF

Druids, they recited their See also:

• LAWS

laws in a See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of sing-See also:

• SONG

song to prevent their being forgotten, a practice still in existence in the days of See also:

• ARISTOTLE
• ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

Aristotle (Problemata, xix . 28) . See also:

• VALERIUS, PUBLIUS

Valerius See also:

• FLACCUS

Flaccus (Argonautica, vi . 135) calls them Thyrsagetae, probably in reference to their celebration of orgiastic See also:

• RITES

rites in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of some divinity akin to the Thracian See also:

• DIONYSUS (probably = " son of Zeus," from & Os and vv(7os, a Thracian word for " son ")

Dionysus . In later times the Agathyrsi were driven farther See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north, and their name was unknown to the See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans in their See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home . See See also:

• AMMIANUS, MARCELLINUS

Ammianus See also:

• MARCELLINUS, ST

Marcellinus xxxi .

2 . 17; See also:

• PLINY, THE ELDER
• PLINY, THE YOUNGER

Pliny, Nat . Hist. iv . 1.2 [26] . 88; See also:

• POMPONIUS, LUCIUS

Pomponius See also:

• MELA, POMPONIUS (ft. c. A.D. 43)

Mela ii . I. to; W . Tomaschek, " See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die See also:

• ALTEN, SIR CHARLES [Karl] (1764–1840)

alten Thraker," in Sitzungsber. der philosophisch-historischen Klasse der kaiserl . Akad. der Wiss. exxviii . (See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna, 1893) .