Sintians
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Iliad
Inhabitants of Lemnos who tended Hephaistos after his fall from heaven.
All day long from morn till eve, was I falling, till at sunset I came to ground in the island of Lemnos, and there I lay, with very little life left in me, till the Sintians came and tended me.
Odyssey
A people inhabiting Lemnos, described as speaking a barbarous tongue.
he is not at home, but is gone off to Lemnos among the Sintians, whose speech is barbarous.