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FASSIS (Ancient city) KOLCHIS
Lazi (Lhasoi, Arrian, Peripl. p. 11; Plin. vi. 4; Lazai, Ptol. v.
10. § 5), one among the many tribes which composed the indigenous population which
clustered round the great range of the Caucasus. This people, whose original seats
were, according to Procopius (B. G. iv. 2), on the N. side of the river Phasis,
gave their name, in later times, to the country which was known to the Greeks
and Romans as Colchis, but which henceforth was called Regio Lazic. They are frequently
mentioned in the Byzantine writers; the first time that they appear in history
was A.D. 456, during the reign of the emperor Marcian, who was successful against
their king Gobazes. (Prisc. Exc. de Leg. Rom. p. 71; comp. Le Beau, Bas Empire,
vol. vi. p. 385.) The Lazic war, the contest of Justinian and Chosroes on the
banks of the Phasis, has been minutely described by contemporary historians. (Procop.
B. P. ii. 15, 17, 28, 29, 30, B. G. iv. 7 - 16, Agath. ii. iii. iv. pp. 55 - 132,
141 ; Menand. Protect. Exc. de Leg. Gent. pp. 99, 101, 133 - 147; comp. Gibbon,
c. xlii.; Le Beau, vol. ix. pp. 44, 133, 209 - 220, 312 - 53.) In the Atlas (pt.
i. pl. xiv.) to Dubois de Montpereux (Voyage Autour du Caucase, comp. vol. ii.
pp. 73 - 132) will be found a map of the theatre of this war. In A.D. 520, or
512 according to the era of Theophanes, the Lazi were converted to Christianity
(Gibbon, l. c.; Neander, Gesch. der Christl. Religion, vol. iii. p. 236), and,
under the name of Lazians, are now spread through the country near the SE. angle
of the Euxine from Guriel to the neighbourhood of Trebizond. Their language, belonging
to the Indo-Germanic family, appears to contain remains of the ancient Colchian
idiom. (Cosmos, vol. ii. note 201, trans.; Prichard, Physical Hist. of Mankind,
vol. iv. p. 263.)
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(Machelones, Arrian, Peripl. p. 11; Anon. p. 15), a subdivision of the Colchian
tribes situated to the S. of the Phasis. Anchialus, prince of this people, as
well as of the Heniochi, submitted to Trajan. (Dion Cass. lxviii. 19; Ritter,
Erdkunde, vol. x. p. 116.)
KOLCHIS (Ancient country) GEORGIA
(Heniochoi). A people in Colchis, north of the Phasis, notorious as pirates.
Heniochi, Heniochian: Perseus Project index
(Moschoi). A people of Asia, dwelling in the southern part of Colchis.
Moschi: Perseus Project
Apsilae, Absilae, Apsilii (Apsilai, Apsilioi), a people of Colchis, on the coast
of the Euxine, subject successively to the kings of Pontus, the Romans, and the
Lazi. They are mentioned by Procopius as having long been Christians. In their
territory were the cities of Sebastopolis, Petra, and Tibeleos. (Arrian, Peripl.
Pont. Eux.; Steph. B.; Plin. vi. 4; Justinian. Novell. 28; Procop. B. G. iv. 2;
Agathias, iii. 15, iv. 15.)
(Manraloi, Ptol. v. 10. § 6), a people on the coast of Colchis, whose name has been traced in the modern Mingrelia.
Moschi (Moschoi, Hecat. Fr. 188, ap. Steph. B. s. v.), a Colchian tribe, who have been identified with the Meschech of the prophet Ezekiel (xxvii. 13; Rosenmuller, Bibl. Alterthumsk, vol. i. pt. i. p. 248). Along with the Tibareni, Mosynaeii, Macrones, and Mardae, they formed the, 19th satrapy of the Persian empire, extending along the SE. of the Euxine, and bounded on the S. by the lofty chain of the Armenian mountains. (Herod, iii. 94, vii. 78.) In the time of Strabo (xi. pp. 497-499) Moschice (Moschike)-in which was a temple of Leucothea, once famous for its wealth, but plundered by Pharnaces and Mithridates-was divided between the Colchians, Albanians, and Iberians (comp. Mela, iii. 5. § 4; Plin. vi. 4). Procopius (B. G. iv. 2), who calls them Meschoi, says that they were subject to the Iberians, and had embraced Christianity, the religion, of their masters. Afterwards their district became the appanage of Liparites, the Abasgian prince. (Cedren. vol. ii. p. 770; Le Beau, Bas Empire, vol. xiv. p. 355; St. Martin, Memoires sur l'Armenie, vol. ii. p. 222.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Worship Athena Asia, Phrixus and the ram with the golden fleece among the, voyage of Jason to land of (Colchis), search for the Argo, demand the restoration of Medea from Alcinous, settle among the Phaeacians.
Colchians, Kolchians: Perseus Project Index
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