Sarmatians
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the Sarmatians
in the texts
Meditations
A people named as the object of a hunter/conqueror's prideful catch, likened to trivial captures.
one man when he has snared a hare, another a sprat in his net, another little boars, another bears, another Sarmatians.
Adversus Judaeos
A people named among the many nations who have believed in and obeyed Christ.
In whom have the nations believed — the Parthians, the Medes, the Elamites, and those who dwell in Mesopotamia, Armenia, Phrygia, Cappadocia, and those who inhabit Pontus and Asia and Pamphylia, those who reside in Egypt, and those who inhabit the region of Africa beyond Cyrene, Romans and resident foreigners, and then the Jews in Jerusalem, and the other nations — as now the various tribes of the …
De Anima
People cited as torpid in mind despite living in a cold climate, undermining the cold-air theory of the soul.
And yet the peoples are more frequent in the eastern and southern temperature, and the talents more nimble, while all the Sarmatians too are torpid in mind.