To be tattooed is a sign of noble birth, while to bear no such marks is for the baser sort. The idler is most honored, the tiller of the soil most scorned; he is held in highest honor who lives by war and robbery.

These are most notable of their usages. They worship no gods but Ares, Dionysus, and Artemis.Herodotus as usual identifies foreign with Greek deities: v. How and Wells ad loc. Their princes, however, unlike the rest of their countrymen, worship Hermes above all gods and swear only by him, claiming him for their ancestor.