Τρωγοδύται [ῠ], οἱ,
name of an Ethiopian people, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.183 (codices ABC), LXX.2Ch.12.3 (codex B), Papyrus in “Class.Phil.” 19.233,234 (3rd c.BC), “OGI” 70 (Egypt, 3rd c.BC), “PTheb.Bank” 9.2 (1st c.BC), “Sammelb.” 4050, 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Div.” 2.44.93, 1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 6.173, +others, Mela 1.23, 5th c.AD: Martianus Capella Grammaticus Latinus 6.593, +others, variant in 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.37: _sing._ in “PCair.Zen.” 40.2 (3rd c.BC), “PSI” 4.332.14 (3rd c.BC)] LXX+5th c.BC+]: hence Τρωγοδῠτικός, ή, όν, belonging to the Τρωγοδύται, σμύρνα, compare τρωγλῖτις (where Τρωγλ-); -κή, ἡ, their country, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.30 (compare p.lxxi Vogel), 1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 6.169, +others] Refs 1st c.BC+]; also ἡ Τρωγοδύτις [ῠ] (Τρωγλ-codices), ιδος, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.939d, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 17.3 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—the spelling Τρωγλο- (as if Cave-dwellers) is known to [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 1.2.34 (unless the passage is interpolated)] Refs 1st c.BC+] and is frequently falsa lectio in codices (so always in codices [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus, as 16.4.4, 17.1.13, +others, although he wrote it ἄνευ τοῦ λ _accusative_ to 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus “Chr.” 16.55), compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 597a9, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.160, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 4th c.BC+]