Histories

These farming Scythians inhabit a land stretching east a three days' journey to a river called Panticapes,[*](Not identified.) and north as far as an eleven days' voyage up the +Dnepr (river), Europe Borysthenes; and north of these the land is desolate for a long way;

after the desolation is the country of the Man-eaters, who are a nation apart and by no means Scythian; and beyond them is true desolation, where no nation of men lives, as far as we know.

But to the east of these farming Scythians, across the Panticapes river, you are in the land of nomadic Scythians, who plant nothing, nor plough; and all these lands except the Woodlands are bare of trees. These nomads inhabit a country to the east that stretches fourteen days' journey to the Gerrus river.[*](Not identified.)