Suarni

SUARNIa rude people of Asiatic Sarmatia, in the neighbourhood of the Portae Caucasiae and the Rha. They possessed gold mines (Plin. Nat. 6.11. s. 12). They are probably the same people whom Ptolemy calls Surani (Σουρανοί, 5.9.20) and places between the Hippie and Ceraunian mountains.