HERODOTUS.

BOOK IV.

CONTINUED.

CHAPTER XCIX.

That part of Thrace which stretches to the sea, has
Scythia immediately contiguous to it; where Thrace
ends, Scythia begins, through which the Ister passes,
commencing at the south-east, and emptying itself
into the Euxine. It shall be my business to describe
that part of Scythia which is continued from the
mouth of the Ister to the sea-coast. Ancient Scythia
extends from the Ister westward, as far as the city
Carcinitis. The mountainous country above this
place, in the same direction, as far as what is called
the Trachean Chersonese, is possessed by the people
of Tauris; this place is situated near the sea to the
east. Scythia, like Attica, is in two parts bounded by
the sea, westward and to the east. The people of Tau­
ris are circumstanced with respect to Scythia, as any
other nation would be with respect to Attica, who, in­
stead of Athenians, should inhabit the Sunian prom­
ontory, stretching from the district of Thonicus, as
far as Anaphlystus. Such, comparing small things
with great, is the district of Tauris: but as there may
be some who have not visited these parts of Attica, I
shall endeavour to explain myself more intelligibly.
Suppose, that beginning at the port of Brundusium,
another nation, and not the Iapyges, should occupy
that country, as far as Tarentum, separating it from
the rest of the continent: I mention these two, but
there are many other places similarly situated, to
which Tauris might be compared.
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