Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Scythia” in book 4, chapter 5, section 3 of Herodotus, The Histories:
..."http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict"> In the time of their rule (the story goes) certain implements—namely, a plough, a yoke, a sword, and a flask, all of gold—fell down from the sky into Scythia . The eldest of them, seeing these, approached them meaning to take them; but the gold began to burn as he neared, and he stopped.
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