Histories

But until then, since the plan is changed, guard the bridge, making every effort to keep and watch it. You will please me very much if you do this.” Having said this, Darius hastened to march further.

Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace runs farther out into the sea than Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia; and Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia begins where a bay is formed in its coast, and the mouth of the Ister, facing southeast, is in that country.

Now I am going to describe the coast of the true Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia from the Ister, and give its measurements. The ancient Scythian land begins at the Ister and faces south and the south wind, as far as the city called Carcinitis.

Beyond this place, the country fronting the same sea is hilly and projects into the +Black Sea [38,42] (sea) Pontus; it is inhabited by the Tauric nation as far as what is called the Rough Peninsula; and this ends in the eastern sea.[*](Here = the Sea of +Azov [39.433,47.1] (inhabited place), Rostov, Rossiya, Russia, Asia Azov.)

For the sea to the south and the sea to the east are two of the four boundary lines of Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia, just as seas are boundaries of Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica; and the Tauri inhabit a part of Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia like Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica, as though some other people, not Attic, were to inhabit the heights of Sunium from Thoricus to the town of Anaphlystus, if Sunium jutted farther out into the sea.