Ἀβασηνοί

Abasenoi: [a people] of Arabia. Ouranios, in book 3 of his Arabika: ‘after the Sabaioi, the Chatramotai, the Abasenoi’, and again: ‘the territory of the Abasenoi produces myrrh, osson, frankincense, and kerpathon; they also cultivate a purple herb like the blood of the Tyrian shellfish’. The formation is oxytone and local among the Arabs, as in ‘Medabenoi’, ‘Obodenoi’, ‘Adrienoi’, but also among all the Asians, as per Apollonios the grammarian, who says in his work on paronyms: ‘these forms are customary for those who live in Asia, but alien to the Europeans. For it has not been named from a city or deme according to this formation’.