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... body, we differ both in form and personal peculiarities. For the body of a Scythian 80 differs from the body of an Indian in form, the difference r... ...ts, but among the Rhodians he pays them in any case; and among the Tauri in Scythia it was a law to offer strangers in sacrifice to Artemis, but wit...

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...UTIUS, with ALARBUS.] TAMORA: O cruel, irreligious piety! CHIRON: Was ever Scythia half so barbarous? DEMETRIUS: Oppose not Scythia to ambitious Ro...

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... 153 Tamo. O cruell irreligious piety. 154 Chi. Was euer Scythia halfe so barbarous? 155 Dem. Oppose me Scythia to ambitiou...

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...g other things, ‘Evi- dences of the Mahometan Religion.’ But now, like his Scythian adoptive godfather, he finds himself in the Paris Athens; surely, ... ...- visage of Fouquier-Tinville with other attorneys; Anacharsis of Prussian Scythia, and miscellaneous Patriots,—though all is yet in the most perfectl...

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...e more, and making preparations, it was reported, to lead his army through Scythia and Paeonia, into Italy. Pompey, on the other side, judging it easi... ...king of Judaea, the sister of king Mithridates and her five sons, and some Scythian women. There were likewise the hostages of the Albanians and Iberi... ...rman wars would yield matter enough to satisfy the most covetous of honor. Scythia, moreover, was yet unconquered, and the Indians too, where their am... ...d over with the specious pretext of civilizing barbarous nations. And what Scythian horse, Parthian arrows, or Indian riches, could be able to resist ... ...assed the river Orexartes, which he took to be the Tanais, and putting the Scythians to flight, followed them above a hundred fur- longs, though suffe... ...rch’s Lives an account of all that happened, he tells him that the king of Scythia offered him his daughter in marriage, but makes no mention at all o... ...e Caspian Sea to Mount Caucasus, and so on about Pontus, till he came into Scythia; then to overrun all the countries bordering upon Germany, and Germ... ...door.” Demetrius’s great actions made Antigonus treat him thus easily. The Scythians in their drinking-bouts twang their bows, to keep their courage a...

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...d that in their veins ran the blood of those old witches, who, expelled from Scythia had mated with the devils in the desert. Fools, fools! What devi...

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... whereas Laches, considering better of it, admits the prac- tice as to the Scythians, and, in general, all cavalry whatever, he again attacks him with... ...men in the pursuit, and by that stratagem obtained the victory. As for the Scythians, ’tis said of them, that when Darius went his expedition to subdu... ...ding the foreign object. The an- cients had an opinion of certain women of Scythia, that be- ing animated and enraged against any one, they killed him... ...e; and the High- landers of Scotland no more pant after Touraine; than the Scythians after Thessaly. Darius asking certain Greeks what they would take... ... warlike nations at this time in being are the most rude and ignorant: the Scythians, the Parthians, Tamerlane, serve for sufficient proof of this. Wh... ...and therefore to abuse it, ought to be a punishable imposture. Amongst the Scythians, where their diviners failed in the promised effect, they were la... ...bsent friends. They do not do this, as some think, for nourishment, as the Scythians anciently did, but as a representation of an extreme revenge; as ... ...t till first they had earned it by the sweat of some kind of exercise. The Scythians when in the field and in scarcity of provisions used to let their... ...emselves by that diet: “Venit et epoto Sarmata pastus equo.” [“The Scythian comes, who feeds on horse-flesh”—Martial, De Spectaculis Libey, Ep...

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...lies noth- ing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Scythian ice, or a frozen sea, so, in this work of mine, in which I have co... ...a and the arctic regions to the lake Maeotis eastward, and to that part of Scythia which is near Pontus, and that there the nations mingle together; t... ...al appellations, yet the whole army was called by the common name of Celto-Scythians. Others say that the Cimmerii, anciently known to the Greeks, wer... ... small part of the nation, who were driven out upon some quarrel among the Scythians, and passed all along from the lake Maeotis to Asia, under the co... ...agnificently with gold and silver, and the rich colors of their Median and Scythian coats, intermixed with brass and shining steel, presented a flamin... ...ir best goods and chattels, had designed long ago to fly for refuge to the Scythians or Hyrcanians. "If you meant to fight, you should have made all p... ..., with their shaggy hair gathered in a mass upon their foreheads after the Scythian mode. Their first design was with their lances to beat down and fo... ...the Parthians threw their darts as they fled, an art in which none but the Scythians excel them, and it is, indeed, a cunning practice, for while they...

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...m, where might wheel On sloping plane the system of the Signs. And as toward Scythia and Rhipaean heights The world mounts upward, likewise sinks it d... ...s The north wind stoops, and scatters from his path Dry clouds and storms of Scythia; the tall corn And rippling plains ‘gin shiver with light gusts; ... ...and at his post he stands, Ere looked for by the foe. Not thus the tribes Of Scythia by the far Maeotic wave, Where turbid Ister whirls his yellow san... ... memory fade. MELIBOEUS But we far hence, to burning Libya some, Some to the Scythian steppes, or thy swift flood, Cretan Oaxes, now must wend our way...

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.... At that period, there lived among this people, with a numerous family, a Scythian of noble birth, who had been banished from his country and did not... ...cts.” V ortigern assenting to this proposal, messengers were despatched to Scythia, where selecting a number of warlike troops, they returned with six...

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...e third king was Darius, who extended the land boundaries of the em- pire to Scythia, and with his fleet held the sea and the is- lands. None presumed...

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...ty of Moscow (Moscou, la ville sainte), the capital of a realm such as the Scythia into which Alexander the Great had marched—Napoleon unexpectedly, a...

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...the ears of corn. If you wonder at this, wonder rather at the tails of the Scythian rams, which weighed above thirty pounds each; and of the Surian sh... ... of Solomon’s house and to hear his wisdom; in Anacharsis, who came out of Scythia, even unto Athens, to see Solon; in Pythagoras, who travelled far t... ...ollonius Tyaneus, who went as far as unto Mount Caucasus, passed along the Scythians, the Massagetes, the Indians, and sailed 242 Gargantua & Pantagr... ...in his book, De Aere, Aqua et Locis, that in his time there were people in Scythia as impotent as eunuchs in the discharge of a venerean exploit, beca... ...prised what Hippocrates wrote in the afore-cited treatise concern- ing the Scythians; as also that in a book of his entitled Of Breeding and Productio... ...on of Athens, from Athene, which is Minerva—just so would Lynceus, King of Scythia, have treacherously slain the young T riptolemus, whom Ceres had se... ...t colour, and two grey dappled females; also a tarand, whom he bought of a Scythian of the Gelones’ country. A tarand is an animal as big as a bullock... ...Musco- vite, I mean a bear, and a skin almost as hard as steel armour. The Scythian said that there are but few tarands to be found in Scythia, becaus... ...ur return you may have an exact relation of the whole. I have found here a Scythian tarand, an animal strange and wonderful for the variations of colo...

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... Idaean, though Hesiod calls him Scythes (1). ENDNOTES: (1) Or perhaps ‘a Scythian’. THE THEOGONY (1,041 lines) (ll. 1-25) From the Heliconian Muses ... ...ect to the gods and suffer harm — Aethiopians and Libyans and mare-milking Scythians. For verily Epaphus was the child of the almighty Son of Cronos, ... ...#40 — Strabo, vii. p. 300: ‘The Aethiopians and Ligurians and mare-milking Scythians.’ Fragment #41 — Apollodorus, i. 9.21.6: As they were being pursu... ...g the period between the Dorian Migration and 340 B.C. (31) i.e. the nomad Scythians, who are described by Herodotus as feeding on mares’ milk and liv... ... treachery of the chari- oteer of Oenomaus, became victorious. (3) sc. to Scythia. (4) In the Homeric “Hymn to Hermes” Battus almost dis- appears fr...

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...Lucretius, v. 1157.] Apollodorus dreamed that he saw himself flayed by the Scythians and afterwards boiled in a cauldron, and that his heart muttered ... ...pedient. The Greek histories make mention of the Argippians, neighbours to Scythia, who live without either rod or stick for offence; where not only n... ...s, under that of Mercury; Xamolxis, 150 Book the Second legislator of the Scythians, under that of Vesta; Charondas, legislator of the Chalcidians, u...

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...at wash and freshet, and no small enterprise to reflect on. Instead of the Scythian vastness of the Billerica night, and its wild musical sounds, we w... ... hay, the fodder ing of cattle, and the draining of peat meadows. Away in Scythia, away in India, it makes butter and cheese. Suppose that all farms ... ...Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature, in which Scythians and Ethiopians and Indians dwell. What is echo, what are light an...

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... avoiding the abodes of civilized man, had sought protection in the wilds of Scythia or Scandinavia; and so under the op eration of the same causes a...

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...ies any considerable way north of the Euxine and Caspian seas, the ancient Scythia, the modern T artary and Siberia, seem, in all ages of the world, t... ...EMP MAN EMP MAN EMP MAN EMP MAN EMPIRE IRE IRE IRE IRE WHEN THE GERMAN and Scythian nations overran the western prov- inces of the Roman empire, the c... ...The judgment of Thucydides, that both Europe and Asia could not resist the Scythians united, has been verified by the experience of all ages. The inha... ...e of all ages. The inhabitants of the extensive, but defenceless plains of Scythia or T artary, have been frequently united under the domin- ion of th... ... militias of some barbarous nations defended them- selves much better. The Scythian or Tartar militia, which Mithridates drew from the countries north... ...s already too large. The ancient Parthians appear to have been a nation of Scythian or T artar extraction, and to have always retained a good deal of ... ...al of the manners of their ances- tors. The ancient Germans were, like the Scythians or Tartars, a nation of wandering shepherds, who went to war unde... ...w in peace. ‘Their mi- litia was exactly of the same kind with that of the Scythians or Tartars, from whom, too, they were probably descended. Many di... ...undisciplined militia, incapable of resisting the attack of the German and Scythian militias, which soon afterwards invaded the western empire. It was...

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...ong other things, ‘Evidences of the Mahometan Religion.’ But now, like his Scythian adoptive godfather, he finds himself in the Paris Athens; surely, ... ...t-visage of Fouquier-Tinville with other attorneys; Anacharsis of Prussian Scythia, and miscellaneous Patriots,— though all is yet in the most perfect...

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...ty of Moscow (Moscou, la ville sainte), the capital of a realm such as the Scythia into which Alexander the Great had marched—Napoleon unexpectedly, a... ...re still fonder of telling us that from the commencement of the campaign a Scythian war plan was adopted to lure Napoleon into the depths of Russia, a... ...rd,” said he sympatheti- cally, and after a short pause added: “Y es, it’s Scythian warfare. It’s all vewy well—only not for those who get it in the n...