Bastarnae

Bastarnae (also Basternae), ārum, m., = Βαστάρναι,

a German tribe which became known to the Romans very early ( in the war with Pyrrhus ), whose abode extended from the sources of the Vistula to the Carpates , and from the Lower Danube to its mouth ( Podolia , Galicia , Ukraine ), Liv. 40, 5, 10; 40, 57, 2 sq.; 40, 58, 1 sq.; 41, 19, 4 sq.; 41, 23, 12; Plin. 4, 12, 25, § 81; Tac. A. 2, 65; id. G. 46.