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like the Taurini, they were once contiguous, and, as Koman 

 writers say, had formed one people.*' As a fact, what name do 

 we now find borne by the land of the Kaeti ? — Tyrol. The 

 Eaeti, like the Easena, had thus evidently dropped their first 

 syllable. Ee-add it, and you get Tyraeti or, pursuing the 

 analogy further back, Tyraseti. Passing along the Tyrolese 

 mountains, we reach the southern part of ISToricum (Carinthia 

 and Styria), which, as we learn from Strabo, was settled by the 

 Celtic Norici, who in older times had borne the name of Taurisci.f 

 But a people does not change its name unless it is conquered 

 or absorbed by another nation ; the Celtic Norici had doubtless 

 subdued the older Taurisci, who, lying next to the " Tyraseti " 

 and on spurs of the same mountain-chain, had once been 

 Tyrasici. Just south of them lie the Japodes, inhabiting, as 

 Strabo tells us, the Mons Albius, " which is the end of the 

 Alps, Their weapons indeed are Celtic," he writes, " but they 

 tattoo their bodies like the other Illyrians and Thracians "t — a 

 custom noted among the Thracians by Herodotus, who says 

 that among all their tribes but three which he has mentioned, 

 to be tattooed is a sign of noble birth, and not to be tattooed of 

 the reverse. § 



Thus Strabo's language indicates not only that the JapodeS; 

 the Illyrians, and the Thracians had an important custom in 

 common, but that they were all parts of one nationality ; and_, 

 in keeping with this, we find a town called Tauris in Dalmatian 

 Illyricum, as we find also a Tauriana in the neighbouring state 

 of Paeonia, and a Tauresium in Thrace itself. In Pannonia (or 

 south-western Hungary) again, we find a Tauruniimi. Passing 

 north-eastward, we next enter the land of the Agatliyrsi, whose 

 customs, as we have learnt, greatly resembled those of the 

 Thracians, and who, along with the Tliracian Getae, afterwards 

 formed tlie chief population of the lioman province Dacia : the 

 last two syllables of their name seem again to enwrap the 

 venerable patronymic ; and so do the first two of another Dacian 

 tribe, the Teuristoi, dwelling in Ptolemy's time (140 a.d.) near 

 the sources of the Tyras.|| It must be borne in mind tliat for 

 the knowledge of most of these names in Taur — and Tcur — we 

 are indebted to Greek geographers, and that the second vowel 

 is the Greek v, like the one vowel in the first syllable of 

 Tyras : so the resemblance is greater than at first sight appears.lT 



^ Justin, XX, 5 ; Plinv, III, 24. t Strabo., IV, vi, 9, VII, iii, 2 ; 



Pliny, III, 23. + Strab. VII, v, 4. § Her. V, 6. 

 . U Ptol., VIII, viii. IT But see p. 100 Final Notes 



