Triballi
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barbarian gods · the Triballi
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
An independent people bordering Sitalces's dominion, marking the northern limit of Odrysian influence.
On the side of the Triballi, who were also independent, the border tribes were the Treres and Tilataeans, who live to the north of Mount Scombrus, and stretch towards the west as far as the river Oscius.
It was also about the same time as the affair at Delium, that Sitalces, king of the Odrysse, died, after making an expedition against the Triballi, and being defeated in battle;
Birds
A collective of barbarian gods, starving alongside the Olympians for lack of sacrifices, who join Zeus in sending an embassy to negotiate peace; Triballus is their individual representative.
Why, the Triballi.
But one thing I can tell you for certain, namely, that Zeus and the celestial Triballi are going to send deputies here to sue for peace.
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.
Against Conon
The nickname for Conon's youthful circle, portrayed as impious and perjurious.
For I hear, then, men of the jury, that a certain Bacchius, who was condemned to death in your court, and Aristocrates, the man with the bad eyes, and certain others of the same stamp, and with them this man Conon, were intimates when they were youths, and bore the nickname Triballi;
Orations
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.