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These are the tribes by the Hypanis river, 1 west of the +Dnepr (river), Europe Borysthenes . But on the other side of the +Dnepr (river), Europe Borysthenes , the tribe nearest to the sea is the tribe of the Woodlands; and north of these live Scythian farmers, whom the Greek colonists on the Hypanis river (who call themselves Olbiopolitae) call Borystheneïtae.
These are the tribes by the Hypanis river, 1 west of the +Dnepr (river), Europe Borysthenes . But on the other side of the +Dnepr (river), Europe Borysthenes , the tribe nearest to the sea is the tribe of the Woodlands; and north of these live Scythian farmers, whom the Greek colonists on the Hypanis river (who call themselves Olbiopolitae) call Borystheneïtae.
[2] These farming
Scythians inhabit a land stretching east a three days' journey to a river called
Panticapes,
2
and north as far as an eleven days' voyage up the
+Dnepr (river), Europe
Borysthenes
; and north of these the land is desolate for a long way;
[3] after the desolation is the country of the
Man-eaters, who are a nation apart and by no means
Scythian; and beyond them is true desolation, where no nation of men lives, as far as we know.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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