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SCORDISCI
, in See also:ancient See also:geography, a See also:Celtic tribe inhabiting the See also:southern See also:part of See also:lower See also:Pannonia between the Savus, Dravus and Danuvius
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Some See also:Roman authorities consider them a Thracian stock, because of their admixture with an older Thraco-Illyrian See also:population
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As See also:early as 175 B.C. they came into collision with the See also:Romans by assisting See also:Perseus, See also: They even advanced as far as See also:Delphi and plundered the See also:temple; but See also:Lucius See also:Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus finally overcame them in 88 and drove them across the See also:Danube . In See also:Strabo's time they had been expelled from the valley of the Danube by the Dacians (Strabo vii. pp . 293,313) . See See also:Mommsen, Hist. of See also:Rome (Eng. trans.), bk. iv. ch . 5, who puts the final See also:conquest of the Scordisci by the Romans not later than 91 . Also H . Pomtow, " See also:Die drei See also:Brande See also:des Tempels zu Delphi " in Rheinisches Museum, l i. p . 369 (1896) ; A . Holder, Altceltischer Sprachschatz, ii . (1904) . |
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