SINDI(ΣινδοίHdt. 4.28), a people in Asiatic Sarmatia, on the E. coast of the Pontus Euxinus and at the foot of the Caucasus, in the district called Sindice. (Herod. l. c.;Hipponax. p. 71, ed. Welck.; Hellanic. p. 78; Dionys. Per. 681; Steph. B. p. 602; Ammian. 22.8.41, &c.) Besides the sea-port of Sinda, other towns belonging to the same people were, Hermonassa, Gorgippia, and Aborace. (Strab. 11. p. 495.) They had a monarchical form of government (Polyaen, 8.55), and Gorgippia was the residence of their kings. (Strab. l. c.) Nicolaus Damascenus (p. 160, ed. Orell.) mentions a peculiar custom which they had of throwing upon the grave of a deceased person as many fish as the number of enemies whom he had overcome. Their name is variously written, and Mela calls them Sindones (2.19), Lucian ( Tox. 55), Σινδιανοί.Eichwald ( Alt Geogr. d. Kasp. M. p. 356) holds them to have been a Hindoo colony. (Comp. Bayer, Acta Petrop. 9. p. 370; St. Croix, Mem. de l'Ac. des Inscr. 46. p. 403; Larcher, ad Herod. 7. p. 506; Ukert, vol. iii. pt. 2. p. 494, &c.)
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