CHATRAMOTITAE
CHATRAMOTITAE a people of the south of Arabia. (
Plin. Nat. 6.28.)
The country he names Atramitae. Both names are but different forms of Adramitae [
ADRAMITAE], the ancient inhabitants of that part of the southern coast of Arabia still called
Hadramaut, originally settled, it would appear, by the descendants of the Joctanite patriarch Hazarmaveth. (
Gen. 10.26; Forster,
Arabia, vol. i. p. 113, vol. ii. p. 324.)
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