First, the THRACIANS. This great nation extended to the north as far as the Danube, where it included the Getæ;(2014) to the east beyond the sea, since the Thynians and Bithynians were Thracians;(2015) to the west within mount Hæmus as far as the Strymon, where it bordered on the Pæonians, widening still more as it receded from the coast, since it also included the Triballians.(2016) On the west bank of the Strymon the Sintians and Mædians were of Thracian origin;(2017) to which nation the Bisaltæ and Edones must also be referred.(2018) Thrace is often represented as having in early times extended to Thessaly and Bœotia(2019) but merely in reference to the settlements of the Pierians at the foot of Olympus and Helicon; and there are many reasons against considering these Pierians as of the same race as the _other_ Thracians,(2020) although they were called Thracians at an early period.(2021) Homer at least distinguishes between these two nations when he makes Here go from Olympus to Pieria, then to Emathia, and afterwards to the snowy mountains of the Thracians;(2022) by which he must mean the mountains of the Bisaltæ to the north of Edessa, since the goddess next rests her foot on mount Athos and the island of Lemnos. Secondly, the PÆONIANS. A numerous race divided into several small nations,(2023) inhabiting the districts on the rivers Strymon and Axius and the countries to the north of Macedonia,(2024) together with Pannonia, according to the Greeks.(2025) This race, according to _their own tradition_ (if Herodotus’s account is correct),(2026) derived their origin from the ancient Teucrians in the Troad; in their passage from which country they had been accompanied, according to Herodotus, by the Mysians, the same people that afterwards gave their name of Mœsians to a great province.(2027) Thirdly, the ILLYRIANS extended southward as far as the Acroceraunian mountains, eastward to the mountain-chain known in its southern parts by the name of Pindus, and northward as far as the Save and the Alps, if Herodotus is correct in considering the Venetians as of Illyrian origin.(2028) Fourthly, _Nations of Grecian descent_.