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Diodorus Siculus, Library | 40 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Byzantium, The Gauls, And Rhodians
These Gauls had left their country with Brennus, and
The Gauls, B. C. 279.
having survived the battle at Delphi and made
their way to the Hellespont, instead of crossing to Asia, were captivated by the beauty
of the district round Byzantium, and settled there. Then,
having conquered the Thracians and erected TyleOr Tylis, according to Stephanos Byz., who says it was near the Haemus.
Perhaps the modern Kilios. into
a capital, they placed the Byzantines in extreme danger. In
their earlier attacks, made under the command of Comontorius
their first king, the Byzantines always bought them off by
presents amounting to three, or five, or sometimes even ten
thousand gold pieces, on condition of their not devastating
their territory: and at last were compelled to agree to pay
them a yearly tribute of eighty talents, until the time of Cavarus,
in whose reign their kingdom came to an end; and their whole
tribe, being in their turn conquered by the Thracians, w
The Gallic King, Cauarus
Cauarus, king of the Gauls in Thrace, was of a truly
Cauarus, king of the Gauls, settled on the Hellespont. See 4, 46 and 52.
royal and high-minded disposition, and gave
the merchants sailing into the Pontus great
protection, and rendered the Byzantines important services in their wars with the
Thracians and Bithynians. . . .
This king, so excellent in other respects, was corrupted
by a flatterer named Sostratus, who was a Chalchedonian by
birth. . . .