Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

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.