Saraparae
Σαραπάραι
Saraparae (Σαραπάραι, Strab. xi. p.531; Plin. Nat. 6.16. s. 18), a Thracian people, dwelling beyond Armenia near the Guranii and Medi, according to Strabo, who describes them as a savage, lawless, and mountainous people, who scalped and cut off heads (περισκυθιστὰς καὶ ἀποκεφαλιστάς). The latter is said by Strabo to be the meaning of their name, which is confirmed by the fact that in the Persian sar means head
and para division.
(Anquetil, Sur les anc. Langues de la Perse, in Mém. de l'Acad. &c. vol. xxxi. p. 419, quoted in Kramer's Strab. vol. ii. p. 500; comp. Groskurd's Strab. vol. ii. p. 439.)
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.