Hamaxoeci
Ἁμάξοικοι
Eth. Hamaxoeci (Eth. Ἁμάξοικοι, Eustath. ad Hom. Il. 13.5; Hesiod. ap. Strab. vii. p. 302; Hdt. 4.46; Aesch. Prom. 709; Strab. ii. p.87, vii. p.209, xi. p.492). This name was applied by the ancients to the Nomadic hordes who roamed over the N. E. of Europe, neither sowing nor planting,--but living on food derived from animals, especially mares' milk, and cheese,--and moved from place to place, carrying their families in waggons covered with wicker and leather, in the same manner as the Tartars of the present day.
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.