The Getae in 218 B.C.

The Getae — Scythians.

The Thracian-Getic horsemen of the lower Ister and the country toward the Euxine — "the bravest and most just of the Thracians," in the Greeks’ own reckoning. Mounted archers of the Danubian plains, they are a constant pressure on the Greek cities of the coast and the Thracian peoples to their south. Above all they are known for their faith that the dead do not perish but pass to their god Zalmoxis — a belief that they themselves are immortal, which makes them fearless in war.