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12.

And to this day there are Cimmerian walls in Scythia, and a Cimmerian ferry, and there is a country Cimmeria1 and a strait named Cimmerian. [2] 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; [3] 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 alike.

1 The name survives in “Crimea.” The “Cimmerian ferry” is probably the narrow entrance of the Sea of Azov.

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