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Maspii

Μάσπιοι

Eth. Maspii (Eth. Μάσπιοι, Hdt. 1.125), one of the three tribes mentioned by Herodotus, as forming the first and most honourable class among the ancient Persians.

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.