Arabians
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the Arabians · king of the Arabians · the Arabian people
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Cyropaedia
Enemy people in their own country, heavily killed during the pursuit.
But the majority of the slain were Assyrians and Arabians.
And again Cyrus ordered proclamation to be made that if there were any one from Media or Persia or Bactria or Caria or Greece or anywhere else forced into service as a slave in the army of the Assyrians or Syrians or Arabians, he should show himself.
On the way to Babylon he subdued Greater Phrygia and Cappadocia and reduced the Arabians to submission.
The Histories
Arab people controlling the desert route into Egypt, noted for strict pledge-keeping and for provisioning the Persian army with water.
From this river (it is said) the king of the Arabians brought water by an aqueduct made of sewn oxhides and other hides and extensive enough to reach to the dry country;
When, then, the Arabian had made the pledge to the messengers who had come from Cambyses, he devised the following expedient:
By three aqueducts (they say) he brought the water to three different places.
Stromata
People credited with exact theology and with working out augury.
The Brahmans all, and the Odrysae and the Getae and the race of the Egyptians, treated their own matters as theology with exactness;
The Isaurians and the Arabians worked out augury, as the Telmesians did divination through dreams.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
The Arabians, cited as a people who have long traded uninterruptedly with the East Indies.
Moreover, the Arabians and the Chinese are at the present day still carrying on with the people of the East Indies a trade which has been uninterrupted for several centuries.