Note 201 — PHOTIUS BIBLIOTHECA OR MYRIOBIBLON[6]
John Henry Freese translation
Attempts to identify these people have proved unsatisfactory. The name is variously derived from ab origine, the primeval inhabitants, children of the soil = Gk. αὐτόχθονες; from aberrare, the nomads; or from βορείγενοι, mountain-dwellers.