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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![Scythe ^; and they indeed formed the fliade be- tween the grand Generic name of Scythe, or Gets, and the Specific name of Thracians, which had attended the Scythians in paffing into a dif- tinft country, feparated from Ancient Scythia by a broad and deep river, the Danube. Thofe fpeci- fic names are no more to be confidered, than as die names of counties in England; and the petty tribes^ into which the fpecific nations were divided, only refemble our towns, *tho upon a far larger fcale ; as, among barbaric nations, the people are fcattered in feparate huts over a wide country, which, in advanced fociety, would form a city. Herodotus includes the Myji^ or Alceft, under the name of Thracians; and Strabo, lib, vii. fays, that many Greek authors did the fame. The Mosli were a vaft people extending all along the fouth of the Danube, from it’s mouth to Illyricum. When Macedon was conquered by the Romans, their country was ereded into two provinces Upper and Lower Moefia. In Lower Moefia flood Tomi, the place of Ovid’s banifhment, on the Euxine; and, we learn from his Triftia, that he there wrote a poem in the language of the country, and that the laiiEuase was the Getic or Gothic. Ah pudet et Getico fcripli fermone libellum, De Ponto, lib. iv. ep. xiii, Nam dedici Getice, Sarmaticeque loqui. Njcte mirari fi lint vitiofa, decebit Carmina quae faciani oeiie poeta Getes, Ib. III. ii. From innumerable paffages in his Trijita, and ^ Juflin. lib. IXf c. 2. This very country Ovid defcribes as polFeft by the Scythaf, whom he in other paffages calls Getae. It was the Scythia Fontica of Conflantine I. and its bi- fliops were called of Scythia^ and fo appear in many councils. See Peyffonnel Qbferv. fur la ptuples ha'b de I'Euxtnr. In all ages of antiquity Scythe and Geta are fynonymous as to iden- tity of people. Scylax fays ©jaxjjv Znvica sGvoj. Mela, ‘ His [Scythis] Tluacia proxima cih’ E 3 in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28754529_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
