DAORSI
Eth.
DAORSI,
DAORIZI (Eth.
Δαόριζοι,
Strab. vii. p.315), a people of Illyricum, who lived on the banks of the Naro. (Strab.
l.c.) They were allied with the Romans (comp.
Liv. 45.26), and a quarrel between them and the Dalmatians gave a colourable pretext to the republic for its invasion of Dalmatia in B.C. 156. (
Plb. 32.24.) Pliny (
3.26) describes their territory as being parcelled out into seventeen small divisions, which he calls “decuriae.” They must have possessed some importance, as a coin has been found with the epigraph of this people, of the same workmanship and type as those of Gentius, king of Illyricum. (Eckhel, vol. i. p. 155; Rasche, vol. ii. pt. 1. p. 51.)
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