or REGIO NABATÆORUM, 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 Ismael. 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. Nabatheus the epithet.