A dissertation on the origin and progress of the Scythians or Goths. Being an introduction to the ancient and modern history of Europe / By John Pinkerton.
- John Pinkerton
- Date:
- 1787
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A dissertation on the origin and progress of the Scythians or Goths. Being an introduction to the ancient and modern history of Europe / By John Pinkerton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Scythic Hiftories: and called the Goths Scytha. See Photius, Cod. 83. 5. Prifcus vAt?, Scythians and Goths fynonymoufly. faying ‘ they befieged the Goths. There the Scythians labouring under want of victuals, &c.’ ■ 6. Eunapius calls thofe Goths whom Valens planted in Mcefia Scythians 7. Procopius, lib. IV. c. 5. x.<zi ix x7J^x Tor^r/jx T&vyi ^v^7rxvTX,oi kxi'^kvQxi iv roig xvui %^ovoig bttsxmKo- yji/Txi : ‘ all the other Gothic nations, who were alfo called Scythians in ancient times.’ 8. Anaftafius in Hift. Chronograph. I,kv9xi, TSSS^xio^evTig, 01 Xcfojxivoi TotSoi^ rov Igr^ov 'osorx^ovy stti AsJC/OU, 'VjKiLgXOVg TUJV cTTIK^XTcIXV KXTSVSjJCOVTO, ‘ When many Scythians, who are called Goths, ‘ had pall the river Ifter, in the time of Decius, • they wafted the Roman empire.’ 9. Theophanes, under the year 370, Tordovg h CTTiXM^iMg TOVg Xzv9xg K^.i]g9xi T^xixvog HarpiTtiog ZY} Kxr xvTov Igropix (pYjgiv: ‘ for that the Scythians are ‘ in their tongne called Goths, Trajanus Patricius ‘ relates in the hiftory of his own time.’ 10. Georgius Syncellus, 'Lvji>9xi kxl Tor9oi Xsfo- fjism sTTiypc^ioog: ‘ the Sc^^thians are alfo called ‘ Goths in their own language.’ 11. Jornandes'’ always fpeaks of the Goths, Gets, and Scyths, as one people, and ufes the names fynonymoufly. 12. Ifidorus thus begins his Chronicle of the Goths in Spain, Goihoriim antiquijjimwn ejfe regnum cerium ejl, quod ex regno Scytharum eji exorium. 13. Procopius repeatedly calls the Feederati, fo well known in the Lower Empire, Goths. Suidas in voce calls them Scyths. 14. AmmianusMarcellinus, lib. xxxi. mentioning the death of Decius who fell in the battle againft the Goths, or Gets, calls them Scythica gentes. * In Excerpt. Legat. Valefii. Paris, Ibid. • ® De rebus Get. it Dc Regn, Succ, There](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28754529_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
