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ὡς Σ. εἶναι, ‘so far as they are Scyths.’ H. distinguishes them from the other races whom the Greeks called ‘Scyths’; it was Thucydides' ignorance, or neglect, of this distinction which led him implicitly to contradict H. as to their numbers (cf. v. 3 with Thuc. ii. 97. 6).

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