IAZYGES  , a tribe of Sarmatians first heard of on the Maeotis, where they were among the

allies of 1blithradates the Great . Moving westward across Scythia, and hence called Metanastae, they were on the lower Danube by the time of Ovid, and about A.D . 5o occupied the plains east of the Theiss . Here, under the general name of Sarmatae, they were a perpetual trouble to the Roman province of Dacia . They were divided into freemen and serfs (Sarmatae Limigantes), the latter of whom had a , different manner of life and were probably an older settled population enslaved by nomad masters . They rose against them in A.D . 334, but were repressed by foreign aid . Nothing is heard of Iazyges or Sarmatae after the Hunnish invasions . Graves at Keszthely and elsewhere in the Theiss valley, shown by their contents to belong to nomads of the first centuries A.D., are referred to the Iazyges . (E . H .