Ἀβασηνοί

Abasenoi: [a people] of Arabia. Ouranios, in book 3 of his Arabika: ‘after the Sabaians, the Chatramotai, the Abasenoi’, and again: ‘the territory of the Abasenoi produces myrrh and osson and incense and kerpathon; and they cultivate a purple grass like the blood of the Tyrian murex.’ The form is oxytone and local among the Arabs, as in ‘Medabenoi’, ‘Obodenoi’, ‘Adrienoi’, but also among all the Asians, as Apollonios the grammarian says in his On Paronyms: ‘these forms are customary among those who live in Asia, but foreign to Europeans. For a name is not formed from a city or deme according to this form.’