AMA´DOCI
Eth.
AMA´DOCI (Eth.
Ἀμάδοκοι), a people of Sarmatia Europaea, mentioned by Hellanicus (
Steph. B. sub voce Their country was called Amadocium. Ptolemy (
3.5) mentions the Amadoci Montes, E. of the Borysthenes (
Dnieper), as an E. prolongation of M. Pence, and in these mountains the Amadoci, with a city Amodoca and a lake of the same name, the source of a river falling into the Borysthenes.
The positions are probably in the S. Russian province of
Jekaterinoslav, or in
Kherson. [
P.S]