Heniochi
Ἐνίοχοι
Eth. Heniochi (Eth. Ἐνίοχοι, Dionys. A. R. 687; Arrian, Peripl. p. 11; Anon. Peripl. p. 15), a Colchian tribe, who appear in geography as early as Hellanicus (p. 91, ed. Sturz). Strabo (xi. p.496), who derives their name from the legendary charioteers of the Dioscuri, describes them as a seafaring, piratical race, using small boats, called καμάραι by the Greeks, and containing from twenty-five to thirty men.
From the account of the escape of Mithridates Eupator, from Pontus to the Bosporus, they appear occupying the country between the W. edge of Caucasus and the Euxine, with an area of 1000 stadia. (Strab. l.c.; comp. Plin. Nat. 6.4; Scyl. p. 31; Ptol, 5.10.)
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.