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βοῦς. Hippocrates (de Aer. c. 18) confirms H. that the Scyths used oxen for draft, like the modern Calmucks.


οὐδὲ τοὺς παῖδας: cf. the counsel of Croesus (i. 155 n.); the sparing of the women seems to point to a Northern respect for the sex.

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