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The Oritae or Oreitae ( Greek: Ὠρεῖται, Ōreîtai) were a tribe of the sea-coast of Gedrosia, mentioned by several ancient writers. [1]
The Oritae were a people inhabiting the sea-coast of Gedrosia, with whom Alexander fell in on his march from the Indus to Persia in 326 BC. [2] Their territory appears to have been bounded on the east by the Arabis, and on the west by a mountain spur which reached the sea at Cape Moran. [1]
There is considerable variation in the manner in which their names are written in different authorities: thus they appear as Oritae in Arrian; [3] Oritai (Ὠρῖται) in Strabo, [4] Dionysius Periegetes, [5] Plutarch, [6] and Stephanus Byzantinus; as Ori or Oroi (Ὦροι) in Arrian [7] and Pliny; [8] and Horitae in Curtius. [9] [1]
Arrian and Strabo have described them at some length. According to the former, they were an Indian nation, [10] who wore the same arms and dress as those people, but differed from them in manners and institutions. [11] According to the latter they were a race living under their own laws, [4] and armed with javelins hardened at the point by fire and poisoned. [12] [1]
In another place Arrian appears to have given the true Indians to the river Arabis (or Purali), the eastern boundary of the Oritae; [13] and the same view is taken by Pliny. [14] Pliny calls them "Ichthyophagi Oritae"; [15] Curtius "Indi maritimi". [16] [1]
Rambacia (Ῥαμβακία) was the first village of the Oritae, which was taken by Alexander the Great. [17]
This article relies largely or entirely on a
single source. (June 2022) |
The Oritae or Oreitae ( Greek: Ὠρεῖται, Ōreîtai) were a tribe of the sea-coast of Gedrosia, mentioned by several ancient writers. [1]
The Oritae were a people inhabiting the sea-coast of Gedrosia, with whom Alexander fell in on his march from the Indus to Persia in 326 BC. [2] Their territory appears to have been bounded on the east by the Arabis, and on the west by a mountain spur which reached the sea at Cape Moran. [1]
There is considerable variation in the manner in which their names are written in different authorities: thus they appear as Oritae in Arrian; [3] Oritai (Ὠρῖται) in Strabo, [4] Dionysius Periegetes, [5] Plutarch, [6] and Stephanus Byzantinus; as Ori or Oroi (Ὦροι) in Arrian [7] and Pliny; [8] and Horitae in Curtius. [9] [1]
Arrian and Strabo have described them at some length. According to the former, they were an Indian nation, [10] who wore the same arms and dress as those people, but differed from them in manners and institutions. [11] According to the latter they were a race living under their own laws, [4] and armed with javelins hardened at the point by fire and poisoned. [12] [1]
In another place Arrian appears to have given the true Indians to the river Arabis (or Purali), the eastern boundary of the Oritae; [13] and the same view is taken by Pliny. [14] Pliny calls them "Ichthyophagi Oritae"; [15] Curtius "Indi maritimi". [16] [1]
Rambacia (Ῥαμβακία) was the first village of the Oritae, which was taken by Alexander the Great. [17]