Histories

Two of her sons, Agathyrsus and Gelonus, were cast out by their mother and left the country, unable to fulfill the requirements set; but Scythes, the youngest, fulfilled them and so stayed in the land.

From Scythes son of Heracles comes the whole line of the kings of Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia; and it is because of the vessel that the Scythians carry vessels on their belts to this day. This alone his mother did for Scythes. This is what the Greek dwellers in +Black Sea [38,42] (sea) Pontus say.

There is yet another story, to which account I myself especially incline. It is to this effect. The nomadic Scythians inhabiting Asia (continent)Asia, when hard pressed in war by the Massagetae, fled across the Araxes [*](Herodotus' idea of the course of this river is uncertain; cp. Hdt. 1.202. He appears to extend the Araxes, which flowed from the west into the Caspian, into regions east of that sea.) river to the Cimmerian country (for the country which the Scythians now inhabit is said to have belonged to the Cimmerians before),