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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 409 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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. Some See also:Roman authorities consider them a Thracian stock, because of their admixture with an older Thraco-Illyrian See also:population. As See also:early as 175 B.C. they came into collision with the See also:Romans by assisting See also:Perseus, See also:king of See also:Macedonia; and after Macedonia became a Roman See also:province they were for many years engaged in hostilities with them. In 135 they were defeated by M. Cosconius in See also:Thrace (See also:Livy, epic. 56); in 118, according to a memorial See also:stone discovered near Thessalonica (W. Dittenberger, Sylloge inscriptionum Graecarum, i. No. 247, 1883 edition), Sextus Pompeius, probably the grandfather of the triumvir, was slain fighting against them near Stobi. In 114 they surprised and destroyed the See also:army of See also:Gaius Porcius See also:Cato in the Servian mountains, but were defeated by Q. Minucius See also:Rufus in 107. Nevertheless, they still from See also:time to time gave trouble to the Roman See also:governors of Macedonia, whose territory they invaded in See also:combination with the Maedi and Dardani.

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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