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So he drew one of his bows (for until then Heracles always carried two), and showed her the belt, and gave her the bow and the belt, that had a golden vessel on the end of its clasp; and, having given them, he departed. But when the sons born to her were grown men, she gave them names, calling one of them Agathyrsus and the next Gelonus and the youngest Scythes; furthermore, remembering the instructions, she did as she was told.
So he drew one of his bows (for until then Heracles always carried two), and showed her the belt, and gave her the bow and the belt, that had a golden vessel on the end of its clasp; and, having given them, he departed. But when the sons born to her were grown men, she gave them names, calling one of them Agathyrsus and the next Gelonus and the youngest Scythes; furthermore, remembering the instructions, she did as she was told.
[2] Two of her sons,
Agathyrsus and
Gelonus, were cast out by their mother and left the country, unable to fulfill the requirements set; but Scythes, the youngest, fulfilled them and so stayed in the land.
[3]
From Scythes son of
Heracles comes the whole line of the kings of
Scythia (region (general)), Asia
Scythia
; and it is because of the vessel that the
Scythians carry vessels on their belts to this day. This alone his mother did for Scythes. This is what the
Greek dwellers in
+Black Sea [38,42] (sea)
Pontus
say.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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