Maeotians, a Scythian tribe to the north of the Black Sea, Hdt. 4.123, X. Mem. 2.1.10.
as Adj. Μαιώτης, ου, Maeotian, ποταμὸς M. the Tanais, Hdt. 4.45:—fem. Μαιῶτις λίμνη the Palus Maeotis, Sea of Azof, A. Pr. 418 (lyr.), etc.; ἡ λίμνη ἡ Μαιῆτις(Ion.) Hdt. 1.104, etc.:
μαιώτης, ου, ὁ, a fish caught there, and in the Nile, Archipp. 26, Ael. NA 10.19.
Μαιωτικός, ή, όν, αὐλὼν M., i.e. the Cimmerian Bosporus, A. Pr. 731.