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[2] Apart from the tribes and cities as well as the local rulers of Asia, many of their counterparts in Europe and Libya put in an appearance; from Libya, Carthaginians and Libyphoenicians and all those who inhabit the coast as far as the Pillars of Heracles; from Europe, the Greek cities and the Macedonians also sent embassies, as well as the Illyrians and most of those who dwell about the Adrfatic Sea, the Thracian peoples and even those of their neighbours the Gauls, whose people became known then first in the Greek world.1

1 Justin 12.13.1-2; Arrian. 7.15.4-6 (embassies from the west); Arrian. 7.19.1-2 (embassies from the Greeks). Arrian. 7.15.5-6 expresses doubt about the embassy from Rome, reported among others by Cleitarchus (Jacoby, Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, no. 137, F 31; from Pliny, Naturalis Historia, 3.57).

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