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Trausi (Trausoi, Herod. v. 3, 4; Thrausi, Liv. xxxviii. 41), a Thracian
people, who appear, in later times at least, to have occupied the SE. offshoots
of Mount Rhodope, to the W. of the Hebrus, and about Tempyra. Herodotus tells
us that the Trausi entertained peculiar notions respecting human life, which were
manifested in appropriate customs. When a child was born, his kinsfolk, sitting
around him, bewailed his lot in having to encounter the miseries of mortal existence;
whereas when any one died, they buried him with mirth and rejoicing, declaring
him to have been freed from great evils, and to be now in perfect bliss.1
Suidas and Hesychius (s. v.) mention a Scythian tribe called the Trausi,
who, according to Steph. B. (s. v.), were the same people as the Agathyrsi. The
last-named author speaks of a Celtic race also, bearing this appellation. On this
slight foundation the strange theory has been built that the Thracian Trausi were
the original stock of the Celts; and by way of supporting this notion, its propounders
arbitrarily read Trausoi instead of Prausoi in Strabo, iv. p. 187, where Strabo
expressly says that lie was unable to state what was the original abode of the
Prausi: had he been writing about the Thracian Trausi we may safely assume that
no such ignorance would have been acknowledged. (Cf. Ukert, ii. pt. 2, p. 230.)
1 Mela has followed Herodotus very closely in the
following passage (ii. 2): Lugentur apud quosdam puerperia, natique deflentur:
funera contra festa sunt, et veluti sacra, cantu lusuque celebrantur.
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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