Theodor Mommsen Tribes Quotations

The Dalmatian tribes and the Pannonians, at least of the region of the Save, for a short time obeyed the Roman governors; but they bore the new rule with an ever increasing grudge, above all on account of the taxes, to which they were unaccustomed, and which were relentlessly exacted.

Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.