Histories

Herodotus

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

For, as I have before indicated, Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia produces no asses or mules; and there is not in most of Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia an ass or a mule, because of the cold. Therefore the asses frightened the Scythian horses when they brayed loudly;