[OKSooner]

Sarmatians?

[Antoninus]

Sarmatians?

The Sarmatians were barbarian tribe from across the Danube. The statement was this man's way of saying that barbarians are in charge of the Empire.

There are folks out there who theorize that Arthur, king of the Britons, was a Sarmatian.

[GreyFriar]

Sarmatian, member of a people originally of Iranian stock who migrated from Central Asia to the Ural Mountains between the 6th and 4th century BC and eventually settled in most of southern European Russia and the eastern Balkans.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sarmatian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmatians

Definitely not related to the Samaritan’s of northern Israel.