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NOMAD (Gr. voµas, voµabes, wandering)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 735 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NOMAD (Gr. voµas, voµabes, wandering)  , a wanderer . The word is particularly used of tribes who shift continually from
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place to place in
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search of pasture (Gr. pipav) . The voµabes of
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ancient
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Greek writers meant particularly the
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pastoral tribes of
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North
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Africa; hence the Latin name of the Numidians (see
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NUMIDIA) .

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