Histories

Beyond the Tauric country the Scythians begin, living north of the Tauri and beside the eastern sea, west of the Kerchenskiy Proliv [36.650,45.250] (strait), EuropeCimmerian Bosporus and the Maeetian lake, as far as the +Azov [39.433,47.1] (inhabited place), Rostov, Rossiya, Russia, Asia Tanaïs river, which empties into the end of that lake.

Now it has been seen that on its northern and inland side, running from the Ister, Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia is bounded first by the Agathyrsi, next by the Neuri, next by the Man-eaters, and last by the Black-cloaks.

Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia, then, is a four-sided country, two of whose sides are coastline, the frontiers running inland and those that are by the sea making it a perfect square;

for it is a ten days' journey from the Ister to the +Dnepr (river), Europe Borysthenes, and the same from the +Dnepr (river), Europe Borysthenes to the Maeetian lake; and it is a twenty days' journey from the sea inland to the country of the Black-cloaks who live north of Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia.

Now, as I reckon a day's journey at two hundred stades, the cross-measurement of Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia would be a distance of five hundred miles, and the line drawn straight up inland the same. Such then is the extent of this land.