Note 368 — VIII. THE JEWISH SECTS
H. St. J. (Henry St. John) Thackeray translation
πολισταῖς (i.e. “Founders” or “Colonisers”), Scaliger’s emendation of the MS reading πλείστοις; cf. the allusion in Strabo 296 to a Thracian tribe who live without wives and are called Founders (κτίσται).