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THYNI (Ancient tribe) THRAKI
Thyni (Plin, iv. 11. s. 18, v. 32. s. 43; Thunoi, Herod. i. 28), a people in the
SE. part of Thrace, between the Agrianes and the mountains which separate its
head-waters from the Euxine. At a very early period, a portion of the tribe, along
with the related race of the Bithyni, emigrated to Asia Minor, where they occupied
the district afterwards called Bithynia; but part of which seems originally to
have been named more directly from the Thyni, since we find the names Thuniake
Thraike (Memnon. c. 18), Thunias (Scymn. 727, and 236), Thunia (Steph. B.), and
Thynia (Amm. xxii. 8.14).
Of the Thyni who remained in Europe scarcely any notice is taken by
the ancient historians. When Xenophon and the remnant of the 10,000 Greeks entered
the service of Seuthes, one expedition in which they were employed had for its
object the subjugation of the Thyni, who were said to have defeated Teres, an
ancestor of Seuthes (Anab. vii. 2.22). Xenophon gives them the somewhat equivocal
character of being the most warlike of all people, especially by night: and he
had personal experience of their fondness for nocturnal fighting; for, having
encamped in their villages at the foot of the mountains, to which the Thyni had
retired on the approach of Seuthes and his forces, he was attacked by them on
the next night, and narrowly escaped being burnt to death in the house in which
he had taken up his quarters (Ib. 4.14, seq.). But this attack having failed,
the Thyni again fled to the mountains, and soon afterwards submitted to Seuthes.
Xenophon visited the country of the Thyni in the winter (Ib. 6.31), which he describes
as being extremely severe, there being deep snow on the ground, and so low a temperature,
that not only water, but even wine in the vessels was frozen; and many of the
Greeks lost noses and ears through frostbite. (Ib. 4.3)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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