Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Apasiakai: a people of the Massagetai. Strabo in the eleventh, and Polybios in the tenth: "the Apasiakai, nomads, dwell between the Oxos and the Tanais".
External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.
Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.
Ἀπασιάκαι, Μασσαγετῶν ἔθνος. Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ, καὶ Πολύβιος δεκάτῃ “οἱ δ´ Ἀπασιάκαι νομάδες κατοικοῦσι μὲν ἀνὰ μέσον Ὤξου καὶ Τανάιδος”.
…ιοι«· ἔστι δὲ καὶ κύριον Ἀρτάκης »ἠδὲ καὶ Ἀρτάκεα, πρόμον ἀνδρῶν« (Apoll. Rhod. I 1047). Ἀριαράκης ἔθνος παρὰ τὴν Ἀριαράκην, πόλιν πρὸς τῇ Κασπίᾳ θαλάσσῃ ὡς λέσχη λέσχης, ἀράχνη ἀράχνης. Ὑδάρκης ἔθνος Ἰνδικόν. Ἀπασιάκης Μασσαγετῶν ἔθνος. Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ καὶ Πολύβιος δεκάτῃ (c. 48) »οἱ δ´ Ἀπασιάκαι νομάδες κατοικοῦσι μὲν ἀνὰ μέσον Ὤξου καὶ Τανάϊδος«.