Aesitae
Αἰδΐαι
Aesitae (Αἰδΐαι or Αὐδῖται, Ptol. 5.19.2; comp. Bochart. Phaleg. 2.8), were probably the inhabitants of the region upon the borders of Chaldaea, which the Hebrews designated as the land of Uz (Job,i. 1, 15.17; Jerem. 25.20), and which the 70 translators render by the word Αὐδῖτις (comp. Winer, Bibl. Realwörterb. vol. ii. p. 755). Strabo (p. 767) calls the Regio Aesitarum Macina (Μακινή). They were a nomade race, but from their possessing houses and villages, had apparently settled pastures on the Chaldaean border.
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.