It is a thirty days' journey for an unencumbered man from the Maeetian lake 1 to the river Poti [41.683,42.183] (inhabited place), regions under republican jurisdiction, Georgia, Asia 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.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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