people
the Dahae
Dahae
also: Dahae
A nomadic Scythian people east of the Caspian, proverbial for scattered horse-warriors.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §8.71.37 the Dahae
The Dahae, nomadic warrior tribes east of the Caspian, a byword for the remotest warlike peoples at the edge of the known world.
- Thyestes §336 Dahae
A nomadic Scythian people east of the Caspian.