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Getae

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Getae

Ancient people of Thrace. They occupied the right bank of the Danube near its mouth, but moved north of the river about 340 BC.

Alexander the Great, before his expedition to Asia, invaded their new territory unopposed; but they defeated two other Macedonian armies (326 and 292). They were defeated by the Gauls about 278 BC and from this time they were known as the Daci.

The Getae believed that the human soul is immortal.



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Du Bellay responded in sonnet 10 of Les Regrets by saying that he had not chosen to compose in Latin merely because he was in the Eternal City, as Ronsard had supposed, but rather because of exile - just as Ovid had adopted the language of the Getae in order to be understood.
Letters from home: the epistolary aspects of Joachim Du Bellay's 'Les ... by Bizer, Marc / Renaissance Quarterly
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