Aspasii
Ἀσπάσιοι
Eth. Aspasii (Eth. Ἀσπάσιοι, V. R. Ἄσπιοι), a tribe of the Paropamisadae at the S. foot of the Paropamisus (Hindoo Koosh), about the river Choes or Choaspes (Kameh), whom Alexander subdued on his march into India, B.C. 327. (Arrian. Anab. 4.23, 24.) Strabo calls them Hippasii (Ἱππάσιοι, xv. pp. 691, 698), according to Casaubon's emendation of the unmeaning text: and modern scholars have observed that the names are identical, both meaning horsemen, for the root asp in Sanscrit and Persian is equivalent to Ἱππ- in Greek. (Schmieder, ad Arrian. Ind. 6; Groskurd, German Translation, of Strabo, p. 119.) Their chief cities were GORYDALA and ARIGAEUM
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.