Massagetaen.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 192^v Many diuers naciouns woned þereynne sometyme, as Massagete, Sarnete, and Scite, and many oþere.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vi. xvii. 123 The principall nations of Scythia, bee the Saræ, Massagetæ, [etc.].

1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. xvii. 329 The Scythians, originally occupants of Asia, or the regions east of the Caspian, had been driven across the Araxês, in consequence of an unsuccessful war with the Massagetæ.

1926 Cambr. Anc. Hist. IV. i. 15 Cyrus died fighting... His opponents were the Massagetae, a savage race who occupied the great plain to the East of the Caspian.

1967 C. A. Robinson Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) xxi. 410 The first business of the Greek king of Bactria was..to guard against the strong confederacy of the Massagetae, who were massed across the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers.

1989 J. P. Mallory In Search of Indo-Europeans ii. 53 To the east of the Scythians emerged the Sarmatians, Massagetae, and Alans, all of whom can be derived from the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age of the Asiatic Steppe.