Histories

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.

There is also a story related in a poem by Aristeas son of Caüstrobius, a man of +Marmara Adasi [27.616,40.633] (island), Balikesir, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Proconnesus. This Aristeas, possessed by Phoebus, visited the Issedones; beyond these (he said) live the one-eyed Arimaspians, beyond whom are the griffins that guard gold, and beyond these again the Hyperboreans, whose territory reaches to the sea.