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Καυκάσιον ὄρος. There are only two roads across the Caucasus:

(1) The ‘Caucasian Gates’, nearly in the centre, where the modern road past Vladikavkas runs.

(2) The road on the west of the Caspian, past Derbend, where the railway runs; probably H. means this second road. Stein, however, thinks neither of these can be called ‘much longer’, and so brings the Scyths east of the Caspian. This was probably the actual route of part of the invaders, but H. clearly did not know it.

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