Cicones
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Cicones was a tribe of Seres (Siberia) mentioned by Pliny.[1]
Variants
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Kikan = Cicones (Pliny.vi.20).
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[2] mentions 'The Seres'....After the Attacori, we find the nations of the Phruri and the Tochari, and, in the interior, the Casiri, a people of India, who look toward the Scythians, and feed on human flesh. Here are also numerous wandering Nomad tribes of India. There are some authors who state that in a north-easterly direction these nations touch upon the Cicones11 and the Brysari.
11 See B. iv. c. 18.