Getae
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the Getae · Thracians called Getae · the Mysians · the accursed Getae
in the texts
Orations
A people near the Danube/Pontus region who captured Borysthenes and other Greek cities.
I happened to be sojourning in Borysthenes in the summer, when I had sailed in after my exile, wishing to go, if I could, through the Scythians to the Getae, that I might observe what the affairs there were like.
And the Getae took this too and the other cities on the left of the Pontus as far as Apollonia.
For may I not see that day on which you shall have need of reconciliation, but may such things, as the saying goes, be turned upon the heads of our enemies — that is, upon the accursed Getae, and upon none of the others of our own kindred.
Stromata
People listed among those who treated theology with exactness.
The Brahmans all, and the Odrysae and the Getae and the race of the Egyptians, treated their own matters as theology with exactness;
The Getae, a barbarian nation not untouched by philosophy, choose each year an envoy to the hero Zamolxis;
The Histories
A Thracian people who resist Darius before being subdued, distinguished by their belief that the dead join the deity Salmoxis.
But before he came to the Ister, he first took the Getae, who pretend to be immortal.
and as to whether there was a man called Salmoxis or this is some deity native to the Getae, let the question be dismissed.
Once every five years they choose one of their people by lot and send him as a messenger to Salmoxis, with instructions to report their needs;
History of the Peloponnesian War
A Scythian-like mounted people beyond Mount Haemus who join Sitalces's army and supply much of its cavalry.
the Getae and the tribes in this part being both borderers on the Scythians, and equipped in the same manner, for they are all mounted bowmen.
Of the cavalry the Odrysians themselves furnished the largest portion;