Histories

Neither side could persuade the other, neither the people the princes nor the princes the people; the one party planned to depart without fighting and leave the country to their enemies, but the princes were determined to lie dead in their own country and not to flee with the people, for they considered how happy their situation had been and what ills were likely to come upon them if they fled from their native land.

Having made up their minds, the princes separated into two equal bands and fought with each other until they were all killed by each other's hands; then the Cimmerian people buried them by the Tyras river, where their tombs are still to be seen, and having buried them left the land; and the Scythians came and took possession of the country left empty.

And to this day there are Cimmerian walls in Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia, and a Cimmerian ferry, and there is a country Cimmeria [*](The name survives in “ +Krym [34,45] (autonomous republic), Ukraine, Europe Crimea.” The “Cimmerian ferry” is probably the narrow entrance of the Sea of +Azov [39.433,47.1] (inhabited place), Rostov, Rossiya, Russia, Asia Azov.) and a strait named Cimmerian.

Furthermore, it is evident that the Cimmerians in their flight from the Scythians into Asia (continent)Asia also made a colony on the peninsula where the Greek city of +Sinope [35.15,42.0167] (Perseus) Sinope has since been founded; and it is clear that the Scythians pursued them and invaded Media, missing their way;

for the Cimmerians always fled along the coast, and the Scythians pursued with the +Bol'soj Kavkaz [46.833,42] (mountain range), Asia Caucasus on their right until they came into the Median land, turning inland on their way. That is the other story current among Greeks and foreigners alike.