Oritae
The Oritae or Oreitae (Ancient Greek: Ὠρεῖται,[1] Ōreîtai or Ὠρῖται[2]) were a tribe of the sea-coast of Gedrosia, mentioned by several ancient writers.[3] HistoryThe 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.[4] 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.[3] There is considerable variation in the manner in which their names are written in different authorities: thus they appear as Oritae in Arrian;[5] Oritai (Ὠρῖται) in Strabo,[6] Dionysius Periegetes,[7] Plutarch,[8] and Stephanus Byzantinus;[2] as Ori or Oroi (Ὦροι) in Arrian[9] and Pliny;[10] and Horitae in Curtius.[11][3] Arrian and Strabo have described them at some length. According to the former, they were an Indian nation,[12] who wore the same arms and dress as those people, but differed from them in manners and institutions.[13] According to the latter they were a race living under their own laws,[6] and armed with javelins hardened at the point by fire and poisoned.[14][3] In another place Arrian appears to have given the true Indians to the river Arabis (or Purali), the eastern boundary of the Oritae;[15] and the same view is taken by Pliny.[16] Pliny calls them "Ichthyophagi Oritae";[17] Curtius "Indi maritimi".[18][3] Rambacia (Ῥαμβακία) was the first village of the Oritae, which was taken by Alexander the Great.[19] See alsoReferences
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