The headword, a neuter plural, is presumably extracted from the quotation given, though there are other instances in Herodotus, Lucian, etc.
cf. generally pi 1274.
[1] Part of Menander Protector fr. 10.3 Blockley (120-121; = Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti, De legationibus 194.9-10), on the opulently furnished accommodations provided by the Turks to Roman envoy Zemarchus and his group during the embassy of 569-571. On Zemarchus, see alpha 2962 note. Find further extracts from this fragment at alpha 2962, alpha 3615, epsilon 963, epsilon 2425, epsilon 3658, eta 416, theta 226, kappa 2021, lambda 57, pi 772, pi 1026, upsilon 178, upsilon 408, phi 617, and chi 340.