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In the coastline of Pontos from W to E.
Becheires (Becheires, Becheiroi), a barbarous tribe on the coast of the Pontus (Apoll. Rhod. ii. 396, 1246; Dionys. Perieg. 765), mentioned with the Macrones, and as east of the Macrones. Scylax, following the coast from east to west, names the Becheires, and then the Macrocephali, supposed by Cramer to be the Macrones; but Pliny (vi. 3) distinguishes the Macrones and Macrocephali. Pliny's enumeration of names often rather confuses than helps us; and it is difficult to say where he places the Becheires. But we might infer from Pliny and Mela (i. 19) that they were west of Trapezus, and east of the Thermodon.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited October 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Macrones (Makrones), a powerful tribe in the east of Pontus, about the Moschici mountains. They are described as wearing garments made of hair, and as using in war wooden helmets, small shields of wicker-work, and short lances with long points. (Herod. ii. 104, vii. 78; Xenoph. Anab. iv. 8. § 3, v. 5. § 18, vii. 8. § 25; comp. Hecat. Fragm. 191; Scylax, p. 33; Dionys. Perieg. 766; Apollon. Rhod. ii. 22; Plin. vi. 4; Joseph. c. Apion. i. § 22, who asserts that they observed the custom of circumcision.) Strabo (xii. p. 548) remarks, in passing, that the people formerly called Macrones bore in his day the name of Sanni, though Pliny (l. c.) speaks of the Sanni and Macrones as two distinct peoples. They appear to have always been a rude and wild tribe, until civilisation and Christianity were introduced among them in the reign of Justinian. (Procop. Bell. Pers. i. 15, Bell. Goth. iv. 2, de Aed. iii. 6.)
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
Mares, a tribe on the coast of Pontus, in the neighbourhood of the Mosynoeci.
(Hecat. Fragm. 192; Herod. iii. 94.) Their armour, when serving in the army of
Xerxes, is described by Herodotus (vii. 79) as having consisted of helmets of
wicker-work, leather shields, and javelins. Later writers do not mention this
tribe.
Coraxi (Koraxoi, Aristot. Meteor. i. 13; Hecat. Fragm. 185; Steph.
B. s. v.; Mela, i. 19, iii. 5; Scylax) p. 31; Plin. vi. 5. s. 5), a tribe of Pontus
to the NW. of Colchis, and close to the outlying spurs of the Caucasus. They probably
occupied the western bank of the Corax in the neighbourhood of Dioscurias. In
the same district, according to Stephanus, was Coraxicus Murus and Coraxica Regio.
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