PAGYRI´TAE
PAGYRI´TAE (
Παγυπῖται,
Ptol. 3.5.22), a people of European Sarmatia, whose position cannot be made out. Schafarik (
Slav. Alt. vol. i. p. 211) connects the termination of their name with the word “gura,” which the Poles and other Busso-Slavonian stocks use for “gora,” “mountain.”
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