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Headword:
*)arima/speios
Adler number: alpha,3882
Translated headword: Arimaspeian, Arimaspian, Arimaspean
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Referring to] a place. Also [sc. attested is] Arimaspos, [referring to] a people.
Greek Original:*)arima/speios: to/pos. kai\ *)arimaspo/s, e)qniko/n.
Notes:
The Arimaspeans were a fabled tribe from the far north whose members each had only one eye. See
Herodotus 3.116, 4.13, and 4.27 (with a supposed etymology from the Scythian "arima", meaning "one", and "spou", meaning "eye"); (?)
Aeschylus,
Prometheus Bound 803-6; and see generally OCD(4) p.152.
There were also a people called the Arimaspai (or Ariaspai) who dwelt east of the lake at the heart of Drangiana/Zarangiana in present-day Iran and Afghanistan.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 July 2001@16:38:57.
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