Dentheletae
Δενθηλῆται
Dentheletae (Δενθηλῆται, Strab. vii. p.318; Δανθαλῆται, Steph. B. sub voce Denseletae, Cic. in Pis. 34; Plin. Nat. 4.11), a Thracian people who occupied a district called, after them, Dentheletica (Δανθηλητική, Ptol. 3.11.8), which seems to have bordered on that occupied by the Maedi towards the SE., near the sources of the Strymon. Philip, son of Demetrius, in his fruitless expedition to the summit of Mount Haemus after rejoining his camp in Maedica, made an incursion into the country of the Dentheletae, for the sake of provision. (Liv. 40.22.) (Comp. Plb. 24.6; D. C. 51.23; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 474.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.