Artacoi

[Luka Borščak]

http://balkancelts.wordpress.com/2012/07...ans-26-ad/

What do you people think about this? I don't doubt there was a heroic resistance by the Artacoi to prevent them being deported, but it doesn't sound like Romans to let them live there after one campaign in which they were neither deported or destroyed. If it's really true Romans only managed to capture that one fort after few surviving defenders stormed out... Are there other similar examples of Barbarians left alone in their remote mountainous or maybe swampy areas after campaigns against them proved to costly? The source for this article is obviously Tacitus.

[petar]

There is another example in Thrace.

In 76 BC Appius Claudius Pulcher led a failed campaign against the 'barbarians' in the western Rhodope mtns., in which Pulcher himself died (Liv. Epit. XCI; Flor. II, 39.6; Eutrop. VI,2; Oros. V 23.19; Amm. Marc. XXVII, 4.10). Another Roman army, that of Gaius Porcius Cato, had previously been wiped out in this area (in 114 BC; Liv. Per. 63′a; Flor. 1.39, 1-4; Dio Cass fr. 88’1; Eutrop. 4.24.1; Amm. Marc. 27.4.4), and there is no record of the Romans subsequently attempting to 'civilize' the tribes in the western Rhodopes.

[Luka Borščak]

Interesting that both examples are celto-thracian in Balkan area.

[petar]

There are probably other cases elsewhere, if we look hard enough.