Histories

Except for the Hyperboreans, all these nations (and first the Arimaspians) are always at war with their neighbors; the Issedones were pushed from their lands by the Arimaspians, and the Scythians by the Issedones, and the Cimmerians, living by the southern sea, were hard pressed by the Scythians and left their country. Thus Aristeas' story does not agree with the Scythian account about this country.

Where Aristeas who wrote this came from, I have already said; I will tell the story that I heard about him at +Marmara Adasi [27.616,40.633] (island), Balikesir, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Proconnesus and +Cyzicus [27.9,40.4167] (Perseus) Cyzicus. It is said that this Aristeas, who was as well-born as any of his townsfolk, went into a fuller's shop at +Marmara Adasi [27.616,40.633] (island), Balikesir, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Proconnesus and there died; the owner shut his shop and went away to tell the dead man's relatives,

and the report of Aristeas' death being spread about in the city was disputed by a man of +Cyzicus [27.9,40.4167] (Perseus) Cyzicus, who had come from the town of Artace,[*](A Milesian colony, the port of +Cyzicus [27.9,40.4167] (Perseus) Cyzicus.) and said that he had met Aristeas going toward +Cyzicus [27.9,40.4167] (Perseus) Cyzicus and spoken with him. While he argued vehemently, the relatives of the dead man came to the fuller's shop with all that was necessary for burial;

but when the place was opened, there was no Aristeas there, dead or alive. But in the seventh year after that, Aristeas appeared at +Marmara Adasi [27.616,40.633] (island), Balikesir, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Proconnesus and made that poem which the Greeks now call the Arimaspea, after which he vanished once again.