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After this convoy was first sent on its way, the advance guard of the Scythians found the Persians about a three days' march distant from the Ister; and having found them they camped a day's march ahead of the enemy and set about scorching the earth of all living things.
After this convoy was first sent on its way, the advance guard of the Scythians found the Persians about a three days' march distant from the Ister; and having found them they camped a day's march ahead of the enemy and set about scorching the earth of all living things.
[2] When the
Persians saw the
Scythian cavalry appear, they marched on its track, the horsemen always withdrawing before them; and then, making for the one
Scythian division, the
Persians held on in pursuit toward the east and the
+Azov [39.433,47.1] (inhabited place), Rostov, Rossiya, Russia, Asia Tanaïs river;
[3] when the horsemen crossed this, the
Persians crossed also, and pursued until they had marched through the land of the
Sauromatae to the land of the
Budini.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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