ZICCHI
Eth.
ZICCHI (
Ζικχοί, Arrian, Perip. P. Eux. p. 19), ZINCHI (
Ζιγχοί, Ptol. 5.9.18), or ZINGI (
Plin. vi 7. s. 7), a savage piratical tribe of Asiatic Sarmatia, on the coast of the Pontus Euxinus, between Sanigae and Achaei. They are called by Procopius
Ζῆχοι and
Ζῆκχοι (
B. Goth. 4.4,
B. Pers. 2.29), and by Strabo,
Ζυγοί (i. p. 129, xi. pp. 492, 495), if, indeed, he means the same people, as he places them in the interior on the Caucasus.
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