Brill’s New Pauly
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Androphagi
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[German version] (Ἀνδροφάγοι;
Androphágoi). Tribe who lived north of Scythia (Hdt. 4,100,2), still further north, there was allegedly only wilderness, east of which lived the Neuri (Hdt. 4,102,2; 119,1; 125,3; 5) and the Melanchlaeni (Hdt. 4,100,2; 125,5). In revenge for the A.'s refusal to support them against Darius I, the Scythians invaded their land (Hdt. 4,125,3). It is impossible to localize them or the assign them to an ethnic group -- they were described as ‘an independent, definitely …
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Brill’s New Pauly