Agathyrsi

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Ăgăthyrsi, ōrum, m., = Ἀγάθυρσοι,

a Scythian people ( in what is now Transylvania , and the Bannat of Temeswar ) who commonly painted their faces and limbs; hence Vergil : picti Agathyrsi, A. 4, 146; cf. Plin. 4, 12, 26, 88; and Mel. 2, 1.

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