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Ἄριοι , οἱ, ancient name of the
A.Medes, Hdt.7.62; Μάγοι καὶ πᾶν τὸ Αριον （Ἄρειον codd.) “γένος” Eudem. ap. Dam.Pr.125 bis; ἔκοψα κομμὸν Ἄριον （Ἄρειον codd.) a Median lament, A.Ch.423 (lyr.):—hence Ἀριανή , ἡ, name of the eastern Iranian highlands, Str.15.2.1: Ἀριανοί , οἱ, its inhabitants, D.S.2.37, cf. 1.94, Ael.NA16.16 (cf. Avest. Airyana).
II. inhabitants of the Persian satrapy of Ἀρεία (Arr.An.3.25.1), Pers. Haraiva, Hdt.7.66; written Ἄρειοι, Id.3.93, Arr.l.c.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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