Histories

Herodotus

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

So when they had been given the allotted share of possessions that fell to them, and returned to the Amazons, the women said to them:

“We are worried and frightened how we are to live in this country after depriving you of your fathers and doing a lot of harm to your land.

Since you propose to have us for wives, do this with us: come, let us leave this country and live across the +Azov [39.433,47.1] (inhabited place), Rostov, Rossiya, Russia, Asia Tanaïs river.”