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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 4, chapter 3 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 4, chapter 12 (search)
And to this day there are Cimmerian walls in Scythia, and a Cimmerian ferry, and there is a country CimmeriaThe name survives in “Crimea.” The “Cimmerian ferry” is probably the narrow entrance of the Sea of Azov. and a strait named Cimmerian.
Furthermore, it is evident that the Cimmerians in their flight from the Scythians into Asia also made a colony on the peninsula where the Greek city of Sinope has since been founded; and it is clear that the Scythians pursued them and invaded Media, missing their way;
for the Cimmerians always fled along the coast, and the Scythians pursued with the Caucasus on their right until they came into the Median land, turning inland on their way. That is the other story current among Greeks and foreigners
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 4, chapter 55 (search)
The sixth is the Hypacuris river,Perhaps in the Molotschna region, considerably east of the Dnieper. The “city of Carcine” lay at the eastern end of the Scythian coast, close to the Tauric Chersonese (Crimea). The Racecourse of Achilles was a strip of land, now broken into islands, about 80 miles long, between the Crimea and the mouth of the Dnieper. which rises from a lake, and flowing through the midst of the nomadic Scythians flows out near the city of Carcine, bordering on its right the Woona region, considerably east of the Dnieper. The “city of Carcine” lay at the eastern end of the Scythian coast, close to the Tauric Chersonese (Crimea). The Racecourse of Achilles was a strip of land, now broken into islands, about 80 miles long, between the Crimea and the mouth of the Dnieper. which rises from a lake, and flowing through the midst of the nomadic Scythians flows out near the city of Carcine, bordering on its right the Woodland and the region called the Racecourse of Ach