Brewer's: Bistonians

The Thracians; so called from Biston, son of Mars, who built Bistonia on the Lake Bistonis.

So the Bistonian race, a maddening train, Exult and revel on the Thracian plain; With milk their bloody banquets they allay. Or from the lion rend his panting prey; On some abandoned savage flercely fly, Seize, tear, devour, and think it luxury.

Pitt: Statius, Book ii.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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