Herodotus, Histories, ed. A.D. Godley, 4.11.1

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There is yet another story, to which account I myself especially incline. It is to this effect. The nomadic Scythians inhabiting Asia (continent) Asia , when hard pressed in war by the Massagetae, fled across the Araxes¹ river to the Cimmerian country (for the country which the Scythians now inhabit is said to have belonged to the Cimmerians before),

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[1] ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἄλλος λόγος ἔχων ὧδε, τῷ μάλιστα λεγομένῳ αὐτός πρόσκειμαι, Σκύθας τοὺς νομάδας οἰκέοντας ἐν τῇ Ἀσίῃ, πολέμῳ πιεσθέντας ὑπὸ Μασσαγετέων, οἴχεσθαι διαβάντας ποταμὸν Ἀράξην ἐπὶ γῆν τὴν Κιμμερίην (τὴν γὰρ νῦν νέμονται Σκύθαι, αὕτη λέγεται τὸ παλαιὸν εἶναι Κιμμερίων),

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1. Herodotus' idea of the course of this river is uncertain; cp. Hdt. 1.202 . He appears to extend the Araxes, which flowed from the west into the Caspian, into regions east of that sea.

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