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The Satrae, so far as our knowledge goes, have never yet been
brought under by any one, but continue to this day a free and
unconquered people, unlike the other Thracians. They dwell amid
lofty mountains clothed with forests of different trees and capped with
snow, and are very valiant in fight. They are the Thracians who have
an oracle of Bacchus in their country, which is situated upon their
highest mountain-range. The Bessi, a Satrian race, deliver the
oracles; but the prophet, as at Delphi, is a woman; and her answers
are not harder to read.
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