The corpus record — Latin

Hamaxobii

Hamaxobii · m

a Scythian people

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Hămaxŏbĭi — Lewis & Short

Hămaxŏbĭi or -bĭoe, ōrum, m., = *(amaco/bioi (living, going about in wagons),

I a Scythian people, Mel. 2, 1, 2; Plin. 4, 12, 25 (cf. Hor. C. 3, 24, 9; Just. 2, 2).—In sing.: Hamaxobio instabilior, Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 1.

In the wild

Hamaxobii Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.12.p10

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.