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Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace runs farther out into the sea than Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia; and Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia begins where a bay is formed in its coast, and the mouth of the Ister, facing southeast, is in that country.
Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace runs farther out into the sea than Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia; and Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia begins where a bay is formed in its coast, and the mouth of the Ister, facing southeast, is in that country.
[2] Now I am going to describe the coast of the true
Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia from the
Ister, and give its measurements. The ancient
Scythian land begins at the
Ister and faces south and the south wind, as far as the city called
Carcinitis.
[3] Beyond this place, the country fronting the same sea is hilly and projects into the
+Black Sea [38,42] (sea) Pontus; it is inhabited by the
Tauric nation as far as what is called the
Rough Peninsula; and this ends in the eastern sea.
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[4] For the sea to the south and the sea to the east are two of the four boundary lines of
Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia, just as seas are boundaries of
Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica; and the
Tauri inhabit a part of
Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia like
Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica, as though some other people, not Attic, were to inhabit the heights of
Sunium from
Thoricus to the town of
Anaphlystus, if
Sunium jutted farther out into the sea.
[5] I mean, so to speak, to compare small things with great. Such a land is the
Tauric country. But those who have not sailed along that part of
Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica may understand from this other analogy: it is as though in
+Calabria [16.5,39] (region), Italy, Europe Calabria some other people, not
Calabrian, were to live on the promontory within a line drawn from the harbor of
+Brindisi [17.95,40.616] (inhabited place), Brindisi, Apulia, Italy, Europe Brundisium to
+Taranto [17.216,40.466] (inhabited place), Taranto, Apulia, Italy, Europe Tarentum. I am speaking of these two countries, but there are many others of a similar kind that
+Crimea (region (general)), Krym, Ukraine, Europe Tauris resembles.
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Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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