unded by the Milesiani, the chief of which is Panticapaeum,
which is on the Bog a river of great size, both from its natural waters
and the streams which fall into it.

27. Then for a great distance the Amazons stretch as far as the Caspian
sea; occupying the banks of the Don, which rises in Mount Caucasus, and
proceeds in a winding course, separating Asia from Europe, and falls
into the swampy sea of Azov.

28. Near to this is the Rha, on the banks of which grows a vegetable of
the same name, which is useful as a remedy for many diseases.

29. Beyond the Don, taking the plain in its width, lie the Sauromatae,
whose land is watered by the never-failing rivers Maraecus, Rhombites,
Theophanes, and Totordanes. And there is at a vast distance another
nation also known as Sauromatae, touching the shore at the point where
the river Corax falls into the sea.

30. Near to this is the sea of Azov, of great extent, from the abundant
sources of which a great body of water pours through the straits of
Patares, near the Black Sea; on the right are the islands Phanagorus and
Hermonassa, which have been settled by the industry of the Greeks.

31. Round the furthest extremity of this gulf dwell many tribes
differing from one another in language and habits; the Jaxamatae, the
Maeotae, the Jazyges, the Roxolani, the Alani, the Melanchlaenae, the
Geloni, and the Agathyrsi, whose land abounds in adamant.

32. And there are others beyond, who are the most remote people of the
whole world. On the left side of this gulf lies the Crimea, full of
Greek colonies; the people of which are quiet and steady: they practise
agriculture, and live on the produce of the land.

33. From them the Tauri, though at no great distance, are separated by
several kingdoms, among which are the Arinchi, a most savage tribe, the
Sinchi, and the Napaei, whose cruelty, being aggravated by continual
licence, is the reason why the sea is called the Inhospitable,[129]
from which by the rule of contrary it gets the name of the Euxine, just
as the Greeks call a fool +euethes+, and night +euthrone+,
and the furies, the +Eumenides+.

34. For they propitiated the gods with human victims, sacrificing
strangers to Diana, whom they call Oreiloche, and fix the heads of the
slain on the walls of their temples, as perpetual monuments of their
deeds.

35. In this kingdom of the Tauri lies the uninhabited island of Leuce,
which is consecrated to Achilles; and if any ever vi