Strabo, in the same section notes that the Greeks confounded the Mysians with the Getae (or
Geto-Dacians). That the Ctistae described by Strabo might be equivalent to the
Polistai among the
Dacians mentioned by
Josephus in the
Antiquities of the Jews Book 18, Chapter 1 paragraph 5 has been noted early on by
Scaliger (d. 1609). He conjectured that some of the ascetics lived in groups and lived in buildings, hence the distinction of being called
Polistai "City-Dwellers". ==References==