Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ZABA, ZYGI, ZYGI

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ZYGI

Eth. ZYGI (Ζαγοί; Strab. xi. p.496), a wild and savage people on the Pontus Euxinus in Asiatic Sarmatia, and on the heights stretching from the Caucasus to the Cimmerian Bosporus. They were partly nomad shepherds, partly brigands and pirates, for which latter vocation they had ships specially adapted (cf. Id. 2.129, 11.492, 17.839). Stephanus B. (p. 290) says that they also bore the name of Ζυγριανοί; and we find the form Zygii (Ζύγιοι) in Dionysius (Dionys. Perieg. 687) and Avienus (Descrip. Orb. 871).

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, illustrated by numerous engravings on wood. William Smith, LLD. London. Walton and Maberly, Upper Gower Street and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1854.

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