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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 104 (search)
It is a thirty days' journey for an unencumbered man from the Maeetian lakeThe Maeetian lake is the Sea of Azov. to the river Phasis and the land of the Colchi; from the Colchi it is an easy matter to cross into Media: there is only one nation between, the Saspires; to pass these is to be in Media.
Nevertheless, it was not by this way that the Scythians entered; they turned aside and came by the upper and much longer way, keeping the Caucasian mountains on their right. There, the Medes met the Scythians, who defeated them in battle, deprived them of their rule, and made themselves masters of all Asia.
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 4, chapter 3 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 4, chapter 12 (search)
And to this day there are Cimmerian walls in Scythia, and a Cimmerian ferry, and there is a country CimmeriaThe name survives in “Crimea.” The “Cimmerian ferry” is probably the narrow entrance of the Sea of Azov. and a strait named Cimmerian.
Furthermore, it is evident that the Cimmerians in their flight from the Scythians into Asia also made a colony on the peninsula where the Greek city of Sinope has since been founded; and it is clear that the Scythians pursued them and invaded Media, missing their way;
for the Cimmerians always fled along the coast, and the Scythians pursued with the Caucasus on their right until they came into the Median land, turning inland on their way. That is the other story current among Greeks and foreigners
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 4, chapter 20 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 4, chapter 21 (search)
Across the Tanaïs it is no longer Scythia; the first of the districts belongs to the Sauromatae, whose country begins at the inner end of the Maeetian lake and stretches fifteen days' journey north, and is quite bare of both wild and cultivated trees. Above these in the second district, the Budini inhabit a country thickly overgrown with trees of all kinds.
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 4, chapter 47 (search)
They have made this discovery in a land that suits their purpose and has rivers that are their allies; for their country is flat and grassy and well-watered, and rivers run through it not very many fewer in number than the canals of Egypt.
As many of them as are famous and can be entered from the sea, I shall name. There is the Ister, which has five mouths, and the Tyras, and Hypanis, and Borysthenes, and Panticapes, and Hypacuris, and Gerrhus, and Tanaïs. Their courses are as I shall indicate.
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 4, chapter 57 (search)
The eighth is the Tanaïs river;The Don. in its upper course, this begins by flowing out of a great lake, and enters a yet greater lake called the Maeetian, which divides the Royal Scythians from the Sauromatae; another river, called Hyrgis,Perhaps the “Syrgis” of Hdt. 4.123; it may be the modern Donetz. is a tributary of this Tanaïs.
The eighth is the Tanaïs river;The Don. in its upper course, this begins by flowing out of a great lake, and enters a yet greater lake called the Maeetian, which divides the Royal Scythians from the Sauromatae; another river, called Hyrgis,Perhaps the “Syrgis” of Hdt. 4.123; it may be the modern Donetz. is a tributary of this Tana
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 4, chapter 99 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 4, chapter 100 (search)
Beyond the Tauric country the Scythians begin, living north of the Tauri and beside the eastern sea, west of the Cimmerian Bosporus and the Maeetian lake, as far as the Tanaïs river, which empties into the end of that lake.
Now it has been seen that on its northern and inland side, running from the Ister, Scythia is bounded first by the Agathyrsi, next by the Neuri, next by the Man-eaters, and last by the Black-cloaks.
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 4, chapter 115 (search)
So when they had been given the allotted share of possessions that fell to them, and returned to the Amazons, the women said to them:
“We are worried and frightened how we are to live in this country after depriving you of your fathers and doing a lot of harm to your land.
Since you propose to have us for wives, do this with us: come, let us leave this country and live across the Tanaïs river.