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But when our country increased in power, and the rule of consuls was in full sway, Marcus Didius, with great determination, checked these tribes that before had been always invincible and were roaming about without civilization or laws. Drusus confined them within their own bounds. Minucius utterly defeated them in a battle near the river Hebrus, which flows from the high mountains of the Odrysae, and after these the survivors were completely annihilated by the proconsul Appius Claudius in a hot fight.Florus, i. 39, 5, 6; Ruf. Fest. 9, 2. Indeed, the Roman fleets took possession of the towns situated on the Bosphorus and the Propontis.
4.11
After these came General Lucullus,M. Lucullus, Eutr. vi. 10. who was the first of all to encounter the savage tribe of the Bessi and in the same onslaught overcame the Haemimontani in spite of their stout resistance.Ruf. Fest. 9, 2–3. While he threatened that region, all parts of Thrace passed under the sway of our forefathers, and in this way, after dangerous campaigns, six provinces were won for the republic.
