people
Iazyges
A Sarmatian tribe of the Danube named in Ovid's catalogue of peoples scarcely held off by the river.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §1.2 the Iazyges
A Sarmatian people of the Danube plains, named among the tribes who crossed the frozen Hister to raid; a mark of how wild Ovid's exile-land is.
- Sorrows §2.1 Iazyges
A Sarmatian tribe scarcely held off by the mid-Danube.