Book 16
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Then follows a rugged coast, and after that are some bays and a country belonging to Nomades, who live by their camels. They fight from their backs; they travel upon them, and subsist on their milk and flesh. A river flows through their country, which brings down gold-dust, but they are ignorant how to make any use of it. They are called Debae;The Debae occupied Sockia. The river which flows through the country is called Betius by Ptolemy. some of them are Nomades, others husbandmen.
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I do not mention the greater partρὰ πλείω is Kramer’s correction for παλαιὰ. of the names of these nations, on account of the obscurity of the people, and because the pronunciation of them is strangeSome are called by Diodorus Siculus, iii. 44, and Agatharchides, Asilaei and Casandres or Gasandres. [and uncouth].
