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The Budini are a great and populous nation; the eyes of them all are very bright, and they are ruddy. They have a city built of wood, called Gelonus. The wall of it is three and three quarters miles in length on each side of the city; this wall is high and all of wood; and their houses are wooden, and their temples;
The Budini are a great and populous nation; the eyes of them all are very bright, and they are ruddy. They have a city built of wood, called Gelonus. The wall of it is three and three quarters miles in length on each side of the city; this wall is high and all of wood; and their houses are wooden, and their temples;
[2] for there are temples of
Greek gods among them, furnished in
Greek style with images and altars and shrines of wood; and they honor
Dionysus every two years with festivals and revelry. For the
Geloni are by their origin
Greeks, who left their trading ports to settle among the
Budini; and they speak a language half
Greek and half
Scythian. But the
Budini do not speak the same language as the
Geloni, nor is their manner of life the same.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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