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Αὐχάται . . . Κατίαροι. Pliny (iv. 88), speaks of the Auchetae in South Russia. He also mentions (vi. 22) them as in the Causasus; in vi. 50 he mentions the Euchatae and Cotieri as nomad tribes on the north of the Jaxartes. Perhaps these last are remnants of the Scyths left in their original home (cf. 11. 1 n.), whose name just survives in their new home, but has no practical importance.

Minns, however (E. B. xxiv. 526), ingeniously suggests that this legend belongs to the agricultural Scyths, who were a conquered race, and not ‘Scyths’ at all, but ‘Scoloti’ (§ 2); the objects (‘cup, plough, yoke’) are not such as would be held sacred by nomads.

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