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Massagetae

Massagetae · m

a Scythian people, to the east of the Caspian Sea

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Where it lives

De Regibus 1 · 22.57/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 5 · 0.67/10k
Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Massăgĕtae — Lewis & Short

Massăgĕtae, ārum, m., = *massage/tai,

I a Scythian people, to the east of the Caspian Sea, in the mod. Sangaria and Mongolia, Mel. 1, 2, 5; Plin. 6, 17, 19, § 50; Nep. Reg. 1, 2; Stat. Achill. 1, 307: retusum in Massagetas Arabasque ferrum, Hor. C. 1, 35, 40.—In sing. collect.: Massăgĕtes, ae, m., one of the Massagetæ, Luc. 3, 283: Massageten monstrans, Sil. 3, 360; Claud. ap. Ruf. 1, 312.

In the wild

Massagetas Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.15.2
Massagetae Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.8.38
Massagetae Claudian, Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.542
Massagetas Horace, Carmina 1.35
Massagetas Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.12.p3
Massagetas Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.2.12

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Where it came from

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