SILI
Eth.
SILI or
SIMI (Eth.
Σίλοι or Eth.
Σιμοί,
Strab. xvi. p.772), a tribe of Aethiopians, who used the horns of the oryx, a species of gazelle, as weapons. Some have considered them to be the same as the
Αἰθίοπες Σιμοί of Agatharchides, p. 42. (Comp.
Diod. 3.8.)
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