Roxolani

alternative Rhoxolani

1. historicalpluralplural onlyA Sarmatian people documented between the 2nd century BC and the 4th century AD, first east of the Dnieper, and later near the borders of Roman Dacia and Moesia.

   Yet bears are tamed for labors, and especially for sports, among the Roxolani and Lybians, being taught to draw water with wheels out of the deepest wells and to draw stones upon sleds to the building of walls.

   1981, Edward Topsell, Malcolm South, Topsell's Histories of Beasts, page 24