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ψύχεα. This is a mistake; the summers are intensely hot.

The dative with χωρίζω is very unusual; cf. vii. 70. 1 διαλλάσσοντες τοῖσι ἑτέροισι.

τὴν . . . ὡραίην, ‘in the proper season.’ H. as usual is eager to see a contrast; the winter was the wet season elsewhere, the summer in Scythia. This last remark was more true, no doubt, in his day, when the coast strip, the region he knew personally, was well wooded (cf. ‘The Woodland’, 18. 1 n.); but even now the wettest months are in the summer, and their maximum rainfall is three times as great as the minimum fall, which is in the winter (for tables cf. Bonmariage, u. s. p. 264).

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