or REGIO NABATEORUM, 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 Nabataei (1 Maccabees, Diodorus Siculus): inhabiting a desert and barren country: they lived by plundering their neighbours according to Diodorus. Nabatheus the epithet.