This is what the Scythians say about themselves and the country north of them. But the story told by the Greeks who live in +Black Sea [38,42] (sea) Pontus is as follows. Heracles, driving the cattle of Geryones, came to this land, which was then desolate, but is now inhabited by the Scythians.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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