Bessi - in ancient sources @ attalus.org

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Bessi - a Thracian tribe
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72/23 M.Lucullus defeats the Bessi.
63/35 phs of L.Lucullus, over Mithridates, and M.Lucullus, over the Bessi.
59/35 C.Octavius defeats the Bessi.
43/103 Brutus attacks the Bessi, a Thracian tribe.
Within translations:
AntipThes_9.428 conquest of the martial Bessi, collecting all that I lear
CIL_1.692 alli and the Scordisti and the Bessi and the rest of
Festus:Brev_9 ucullus first clashed with the Bessi. The head of our rac
Hieron:Chron_1946 rated a triumph over the Bessi, after capturing Cabyle,
Oros_6.3 the whole nation of the Bessi with whom he had been
Plin:HN_4.40 the various sections of the Bessi on the left bank, as
Plin:HN_6.217 Samothrace, Maronea, Aenos, Bessica, Thrace, Maedica, Paeonia,

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