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Saspires

Nomenclature

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Cultural Notes

 

Geographical Notes

Saspires, a people between Colchis and Media; eighteenth persian province, lived in between Colchis and Mediean territory

Citations in Herodotos

 1.104,  1.110,  4.37,  4.40
their tribute to Persia:  3.94
in Xerxes' army:  7.79

Key Passages in English Translation

 

English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. Retreived from <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu>

Key Passages in Greek

 

Other Testimonia

 

Other Commentary


Perseus Encyclopedia:

W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotos:

Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
 

Disambiguation

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