BU´DII
Eth.
BU´DII (Eth.
Βούδιοι,
Hdt. 1.101;
Steph. B. sub voce. Herodotus mentions among the tribes by whom Media was inhabited the Budii and the Busae. (
Βουσαί: see also Steph. s. v.)
It is quite uncertain in what part of that country they dwelt. Ritter (
Erdk. vol. ii. pp. 896, 799, 902) conjectures that they, as well as the Magi, belonged to the Priest-caste, supposing them (though without any apparent reason) to have been worshippers of Buddha.
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