Histories

I mean, so to speak, to compare small things with great. Such a land is the Tauric country. But those who have not sailed along that part of Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica may understand from this other analogy: it is as though in +Calabria [16.5,39] (region), Italy, Europe Calabria some other people, not Calabrian, were to live on the promontory within a line drawn from the harbor of +Brindisi [17.95,40.616] (inhabited place), Brindisi, Apulia, Italy, Europe Brundisium to +Taranto [17.216,40.466] (inhabited place), Taranto, Apulia, Italy, Europe Tarentum. I am speaking of these two countries, but there are many others of a similar kind that +Crimea (region (general)), Krym, Ukraine, Europe Tauris resembles.[*](All this is no more than to say that the Tauri live on a promontory (the Tauric Chersonese), which is like the south-eastern promontory of Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica (Sunium) or the “heel” of Italy [12.833,42.833] (nation), Europe Italy, i.e. the country east of a line drawn between the modern +Brindisi [17.95,40.616] (inhabited place), Brindisi, Apulia, Italy, Europe Brindisi and +Taranto [17.216,40.466] (inhabited place), Taranto, Apulia, Italy, Europe Taranto. The only difference is, says Herodotus, that the Tauri inhabit a part of Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia yet are not Scythians, while the inhabitants of the Attic and Italian promontories are of the same stock as their neighbors.)

Beyond the Tauric country the Scythians begin, living north of the Tauri and beside the eastern sea, west of the Kerchenskiy Proliv [36.650,45.250] (strait), EuropeCimmerian Bosporus and the Maeetian lake, as far as the +Azov [39.433,47.1] (inhabited place), Rostov, Rossiya, Russia, Asia Tanaïs river, which empties into the end of that lake.

Now it has been seen that on its northern and inland side, running from the Ister, Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia is bounded first by the Agathyrsi, next by the Neuri, next by the Man-eaters, and last by the Black-cloaks.