Τρωγοδύται
Τρωγοδύται, an Ethiopian people
Τρωγοδύται [ῠ], οἱ,
- name of an Ethiopian people, Hdt. 4.183 (codd.ABC), LXX 2 Ch. 12.3 (cod. B), Pap. in Class.Phil. 19.233,234 (iii B. C.), OGI 70 (Egypt, iii B. C.), PTheb.Bank 9.2 (i B. C.), Sammelb. 4050, Cic. Div. 2.44.93, Plin. HN 6.173, al., Mela 1.23, Mart.Cap. 6.593, al., v.l. in D.S. 1.37: sg. in PCair.Zen. 40.2 (iii B. C.), PSI 4.332.14 (iii B. C.): hence
- Τρωγοδῠτικός, ή, όν, belonging to the Τρωγοδύται, σμύρνα, cf. τρωγλῖτις (where Τρωγλ-) ; -κή, ἡ, their country, D.S. 1.30 (cf. p.lxxi Vogel), Plin. HN 6.169, al.; also ἡ Τρωγοδύτις [ῠ] (Τρωγλ-codd.), ιδος, Plu. Fac.lun. 2.939d, Ael. NA 17.3:—the spelling Τρωγλο- (as if Cave-dwellers) is known to Str. 1.2.34 (unless the passage is interpolated) and is freq. f.l. in codd. (so always in codd. Str., as 16.4.4, 17.1.13, al., although he wrote it ἄνευ τοῦ λ acc. to Str. Chr. 16.55), cf. Arist. HA 597a9, Dsc. 2.160, Hsch.