NABATENE, or REGIO NABATAEORUM, according to Jerome, comprised all the country lying between the Euphrates and the Red Sea, and thus contained Arabia Deserta, with a part of the Petra: so called from Nabathoth, the first born of Ismael. According to Diodorus, it was situated between Syria and Egypt. The people Nabathe (1 Maccabees, Diodorus Siculus); inhabiting a desert and barren country; they lived by plundering their neighbours according to Diodorus. Nabatheus the epithet.