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κυρβασίη = τιάρα. Compare v. 49. 3 ad fin. with vii. 61 ad init. and Arist. Aves 487.

ἐς ὀξὺ ἀπηγμένας, ‘rising to a point’ (ii. 28. 2). ὀρθὰς ... πεπηγυίας, ‘stiff, upright’ (ch. 70. 2, ad fin.). The apparent inconsistency of this with the statement that the great king alone wore the upright tiara (ch. 61. 1 n.) is removed by the facts that the Sacae are not Persians, and that they naturally wore the high-peaked felt or sheep-skin caps of their country, as does the Sacan captive in the sculptures at Behistun. For Scythian dress cf. Minns, Greeks and Scythians, pp. 54 f., and for arms, pp. 66 f.

ἀξίνας in apposition to σαγάρις explaining the foreign word (cf. iii. 12. 4).

Ἀμυργίους with Σκύθας. The name is preserved by Hellanicus ap. Steph. Byz. Ἀμύργιον πεδίον Σακῶν, while Amorges is king of the Sacae in the time of Cyrus (Ctes. Pers. § 3) or of Darius (Polyaen. vii. 12). Apparently (Meyer, i, § 578 n.) H. confuses three tribes distinguished by Darius in the inscription on his tomb at Nak-shiRustam, i.e. the Sakâ, Haumavarkâ, and the Saka tigrakhauda probably = Scyths with pointed caps (cf. iii. 93. 3). They are of course distinct from the Scyths of Europe, though, like them, nomads of the steppes. The Indians, like the Persians, called them Çacâ.

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