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Аппија́н Александри́јски (др.-грч. Ἀππιανός Ἀλεξανδρεύς ) — ок. 95 — послије 170 гг. — дријевноримски историчар грчкога рода, живио за вријеме Трајана, Адријана и Антонина Пија забиљежио је повијести о разним племенима до њихова припојења Риму.
Трибалли - већ у провом вијеку незнани јужно од Дунава и ако је од њих нешто остало, присаједињено Гетима, дијелило би даље њихову судбу.
The Illyrian tribes are many, as is natural in so extensive a country; and celebrated even now are the names of the Scordisci and the Triballi, who inhabited a wide region and destroyed each other by wars to such a degree that the remnant of the Triballi took refuge with the Getae on the other side of the Danube, and, though flourishing until the time of Philip and Alexander, is now extinct and its name scarcely known in the regions once inhabited by it.
Скордискиплеме које је првобитно насељавало Поморавље а касније се повукло у Сријем преко Дунава. Добро су се ородили с Трибалима и Аутаријатима, што поддржава и археологија. Удруживали се с Бастарнима с којима су били једнога језика и обичајне нарави. Могуће је да су за те односе криви Аутаријати, који су приближно 300. г. п.Х. пребјегли у крајеве Гета с којих ће се касније појавити Бастарни. Напомињем да се Бастарни појављују на сцену историје тек 100 г. послије одсељења Аутаријата.
The Scordisci, having been reduced to extreme weakness in the same way, and having suffered much at a later period in war with the Romans, took refuge in the islands of the same river. In the course of time some of them returned and settled on the confines of Pannonia, and thus it happens that a tribe of the Scordisci still remains in Pannonia.
АрдијајиIn like manner the Ardiaei, who were distinguished for their maritime power, were finally destroyed by the Autarienses, whose land forces were stronger, but whom they had often defeated.
Аутарији- вјеројатно добили име по ријеци Тари и вјеројатно значи тек "Потарјани". Ступали у савез с Келтима и заједно нападали Грке и Македонце. Већину их је погубила куга, а остатак је пребјегао ка Гетима у крајеве до Бастарна.
The Autarienses were overtaken with destruction by the vengeance of Apollo. Having
joined Molostimus and the
Celtic people called Cimbri in an expedition against the temple of Delphi, the greater part of them were destroyed by storm, hurricane, and lightning just before the sacrilege was committed. Upon those who returned home there came a countless number of frogs, which filled the streams and polluted the water. The noxious vapors rising from the ground caused a
plague among the Illyrians which was especially fatal to the Autarienses. At last they fled from their homes, and as the plague still clung to them (and for fear of it nobody would receive them),
they came, after a journey of twenty-three days, to a marshy and uninhabited district of the Getae, where they settled near the Bastarnae.
По митоложској генеалогији била су три брата, близанци Гал и Келт, а њихов брат Иллир. Један од синова Иллира је Аутаријеј, а син овога је Паннониј, а овога Скордиск и Трибал. То указује на поријекло Скордиска и Трибала од Аутаријаца.
They say that the country received its name from Illyrius, the son of Polyphemus; for the cyclops Polyphemus and his wife, Galatea, had three sons, Celtus, Illyrius, and Galas, all of whom migrated from Sicily; and the nations called Celts, Illyrians, and Galatians took their origin from them. Among the many myths prevailing among many peoples this seems to me the most plausible.
Illyrius had six sons, Encheleus, Autarieus, Dardanus, Maedus, Taulas, and Perrhaebus, also daughters, Partho, Daortho, Dassaro, and others, from whom sprang the Taulantii, the Perrhaebi, the Enchelees, the Autarienses, the Dardani, the Partheni, the Dassaretii, and the Darsii. Autarieus had a son Pannonius, or Paeon, and the latter had sons, Scordiscus and Triballus, from whom nations bearing similar names were derived. But I will leave these matters to antiquarians.
Ливиј, (64 пређе Христа – 17 послије Христа ):
"The way to the Hadriatic and to Italy lay through the Scordisci; that was the only practicable route for an army, and the Scordisci were expected to grant a passage to the Bastarnae without any difficulty, for neither in speech nor habits were they dissimilar, and it was hoped that they would unite forces with them when they saw that they were going to secure the plunder of a very wealthy nation."
С друге стране су племена Меди и Дардани, који су с једне стране ратовали много против Скордиска и Бастарна, а с друге стране сами нападали Грке и Македон, ипак били поштеђени неких великих сеоба и вјеројатно увелико били поримљени.
It is said that the neighboring tribes, remembering the calamity that befell all the Illyrians on account of the crime of the Autarienses, would not give aid to the temple robbers, but abandoned them to Scipio, who destroyed the greater part of the Scordisci, the remainder fleeing to the Danube and settling in the islands of that river. He made peace with the Maedi and Dardani, accepting from them part of the gold belonging to the temple.
Занимљива је судба свих оних дријевних племена, који су већином погубљени у ратовима, а у остатцима избјегли из тзв. Иллирије к сјеверу од Дунава и према Гетима.