Diegylis (
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...
: Διήγυλις) was a chieftain of the Thracian
Caeni
Kainoi () or Caeni is the name of a Thracian tribe, mentioned by the Roman historian Livy
Titus Livius (; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy ( ), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, title ...
tribe and father of
Ziselmius. He is described by ancient sources (such as
Diodorus Siculus
Diodorus Siculus or Diodorus of Sicily (; 1st century BC) was an ancient Greece, ancient Greek historian from Sicily. He is known for writing the monumental Universal history (genre), universal history ''Bibliotheca historica'', in forty ...
) as extremely bloodthirsty.
[Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca historica'', XXXIII, 14.]
See also
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List of Thracian tribes
This is a list of ancient tribes in Thrace and Dacia () including possibly or partly Thracian or Dacian tribes, and non-Thracian or non-Dacian tribes that inhabited the lands known as Thrace and Dacia. A great number of Ancient Greek tribes lived ...
References
Kings of Thrace
2nd-century BC monarchs in Europe
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