Histories

Herodotus

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

These are the rivers of note with which the Scythians are provided. For rearing cattle, the grass growing in Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia is the most productive of bile of all pastures which we know; that this is so can be judged by opening up the bodies of the cattle.