RHOXOLANI, a Sarmatian tribe defeated in the Crimea by Diophantus, general of Mithradates, c. 100 B.C., and by the Romans on the lower Danube c. A.D. 60, and also under M. Aurelius. They seem to have finally succumbed to the Goths.
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RHOXOLANI, a Sarmatian tribe defeated in the Crimea by Diophantus, general of Mithradates, c. 100 B.C., and by the Romans on the lower Danube c. A.D. 60, and also under M. Aurelius. They seem to have finally succumbed to the Goths.