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Hamaxobii

Ἁμαξόβιοι

Eth. Hamaxobii (Eth. Ἁμαξόβιοι, 3.5.19; Iamblich. de Abstin. 3.15; Pomp. Mel. 2.1.2; Plin. Nat. 6.12; Steph. B. sub voce Ἄβιοι), a people of Sarmatia, situated to the E. of the Scythian Alauni, who wandered with their waggons along the banks of the Volga, and belonged to the Sarmatian stock. (Schafarik, Slav. Alt. vol. i. p. 204.)

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.