Taochi
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The Taochi, or Taochoi (
While passing their lands, Xenophon faced hostility. He recorded that these people were brave, valiant and self-sacrificing to such extremity that after losing the battle, the Taochoi committed mass suicide along with their wives and their children by jumping off the cliff in order not to be enslaved. Xenophon (400 B.C.) describes a similar practice among the Kartvelian Taochi: “Then there came a dreadful spectacle: the women threw their little children down from the rocks and then threw themselves down after them, and the men did likewise. In the midst of this scene Aeneas of Stymphalus, a captain, catching sight of a man, who was wearing a fine robe, running to cast himself down, seized hold of him in order to stop him; but the man dragged Aeneas along after him, and both went flying down the cliffs and were killed. In this stronghold only a very few human beings were captured, but they secured cattle and asses in large numbers and sheep” (Anabasis IV.vii.13-14).[3]
In 1928, a Russian Botanist
See also
References
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Taochi
- ^ Krueger, C.G. (1826). Xenophontos Kyrou anabasia. Hemmerde et Schwetschke. p. 228. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
- ^ Carleton L. Brownson (ed.). "Xenophon, Anabasis, IV.7". Perseus. Retrieved 2017-10-13.
- ^ "Iris taochia Woronow ex Grossh. is an accepted name". theplantlist.org (The Plant List). 23 March 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2016.