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Massagetæ |
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Massagetæ|mæsəˈgiːtaɪ|
Also Massagetes.
[L. Massagetæ, Gr. Μασσαγέται, perh. f. native name Masakata Great Sakas.]
An ancient Scythian people that lived to the east of the Caspian Sea.
1601Holland tr. Pliny's Nat. Hist. vi. xvii. 123 The principall nations of Scythia, bee the Saræ, Massagetæ, [etc.]. 1709I. Littlebury tr. Herodotus' Hist. I. i. 134 The Massagetes resemble the Scythians in their Habit and Way of Living. 1874G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. xvii. 329 The Scythians, originally occupants of Asia, or the regions East of the Caspian, had been driven across the Araxês, in consequence of an unsuccessful war with the Massagetæ. 1911J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Magic Art (ed. 3) I. i. 15 The Spartans, Persians, and Massagetae sacrificed horses to him [sc. the sun]. 1926Cambr. Anc. Hist. IV. i. 15 Cyrus died fighting... His opponents were the Massagetae, a savage race who occupied the great plain to the East of the Caspian. 1967C. A. Robinson Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) xxi. 410 The first business of the Greek king of Bactria was to protect this land, the gateway of Iran, from the semibarbarism of the north, and in particular to guard against the strong confederacy of the Massagetae, who were massed across the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers. 1969J. Conway tr. Bengtson's Greeks & Persians xv. 318 Alexander was unable to capture him [sc. Spitamenes], but the Scythians beyond the Jaxartes, the Massagetae, to whom Spitamenes had fled, cut off his head and sent it to Alexander as a gift. 1973G. Widengren in D. J. Wiseman Peoples Old Testament Times xiii. 320 When Cyrus..again turned to the east, he ultimately suffered a defeat in a battle against some nomadic northern people of Iranian origin, either..the Massagetae..or the Danae. |
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