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 Petraea: so called from Nabaioth, the first born of Ishmael. According to Diodorus, it was situated between Syria and Egypt. The people Nabatei (Maccabees, Diodorus Siculus); inhabiting a desert and barren country; they lived by plundering their neighbours according to Diodorus. Nabathaesus the epithet.