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.
AGATHYRSI(Ἀγάθυρσοι, Ἀγαθύρσιοι), a people of Sarmatia Europaea, very frequently mentioned by the an...
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