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Phruri

Φροῦροι

Eth. Phruri (Eth. Φροῦροι), a Scythian people in Serica, described as cannibals. (Plin. Nat. 6.17. s. 20; Dionys. Per. 752, and Eustath. ad loc.)

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.