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Quotes About Thracian

Some were popular sex symbols: graffiti from the first century AD have been found on walls in Pompeii—one Thracian gladiator was "the maiden's prayer and delight" and "the doctor to cure girls." Their images appeared on pots and dishes.
~ Anthony Everitt
I will make you my brothers and table companions and give you a share of all our gains. To you, Xenophon, I will give my daughter, and, if you have a daughter, I will, according to the Thracian custom, buy her from you.
~ Xenophon
The Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when it has nothing to fear.
~ Thucydides