Illyrians · Atlas

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The Rights of War and PeaceRenaissance · English

Ancient people bound by a peace treaty restricting naval movement.

In a treaty of peace between the Illyrians and Romans, the latter required that they should not pass beyond the Lissus with more than two frigates, and those unarmed.

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nor was it confined to those, who lived under the authority of the Roman empire, but prevailed among the Thessalians, the Illyrians, the Triballians, and Bulgarians.

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History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

A barbarian people of Illyria bordering Epidamnus, some of whom joined the Corcyraean force besieging the city.

taking with them the Illyrians also.

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bordering upon it, are the Taulantii, a barbarian people of Illyria.

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In the mean time, while they were thus at variance, news arrived that the Illyrians had actually betrayed Perdiccas, and joined Arrhibaeus:

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BirdsClassical · Greek

A foreign people invoked by Prometheus as a simile for the incomprehensible bawling of the starving barbarian gods.

The barbarian gods, who are dying of hunger, are bawling like Illyrians and threaten to make an armed descent upon Zeus, if he does not open markets where joints of the victims are sold.

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StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

People credited with inventing the parma shield.

Likewise the Illyrians invented the so-called parma.

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First OlynthiacClassical · Greek

A people campaigned against by Philip and assumed to value freedom over subjection.

His campaigns against Illyrians and Paeonians and King Arybbas and any others that might be mentioned, I pass over in silence.

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But surely we must assume that your Paeonian or Illyrian or any other of these tribes would prefer freedom and independence to slavery.

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OrationsImperial · Greek

A people to whom earlier Macedonians were once subject.

"Not to us, at any rate, father," he replied, "nor to the Macedonians of today, but to those of an earlier time, when, herding and farming, they were in slavery to the Illyrians and the Triballi.

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To PhilipClassical · Greek

A people largely brought under Philip's lordship in the associates' account.

Has he not made himself lord and ruler of most of the Illyrians—all save those who dwell along the Adriatic?

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CyropaediaClassical · Greek

A people cited as ruled by their own king rather than as an expansive empire.

so the Thracian king with his Thracians, the Illyrian with his Illyrians, and so also all other nations, we are told.

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