Histories

Herodotus

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

The land where the Persians live extends to the southern sea which is called Red; beyond these to the north are the Medes, and beyond the Medes the Saspires, and beyond the Saspires the Colchians, whose country extends to the northern sea[*](Here, the +Black Sea [38,42] (sea) Black Sea; in Hdt. 4.42, the “northern sea” is the Mediterranean Sea [30,31.5] (sea)Mediterranean.) into which the Phasis river flows; so these four nations live between the one sea and the other.