Scythia : land of a people famed for archers mounted on horses, masters in elusive desert tactics. The term Scythian covers tribes like Śakas (q.v.) & Kushāns (q.v.).
... historians are right, the Ozéné of Tiastenes must be within what is called Indo-Scythia - that is, the part of northwestern India which is taken to have been under Śaka rule. 3 But Surendranath Roy 4 remarks that Larike, in which Ptolemy (Sections 62-63) situates Ozéné, is put by Ptolemy clearly outside of Indo-Scythia. Therefore his Ozéné cannot have been in Śaka hands in the 4th decade of the... three hundred years old in India when Changragupta II came to the throne in 259 B.C. seems shockingly to contradict accepted history's teaching: 3 "The earliest independent Scythian king of Indo-Scythia seems to have been Maues (Moa, Moga)... (c. 20 B.C.-A.D. 22)..." About him and all who followed him in time it is said: 4 "There is no doubt that the Śaka occupation of the western part of Northern... unconvincing to equate the Śakas "of the land beyond the sea" to the Scythians of the Russian steppes north of the Black Sea. Herodotus (IV. 1-145) in his detailed narrative of Darius's invasion of Scythia to the north of the Black Sea tells us how foiled and frustrated the Persian army was by the Scythians' tricks and how Darius for the safety of his army had to leave this territory without really ...
... thou carest not; for I am Page 896 thine already whether I will or no, thy captive and thy slave-girl. This is not to be borne. So I have written to my noble suitors of Ichalgurh and Scythia to avenge me upon thy Bheel body; I doubt not, they will soon carry thy head to Edur in a basket, if thou hast the manners to permit them. Yet since thy followers call thee Smiter of the Forest and ...
... to endure all its hardships. On the other hand, visitors were delighted by the spectacle of the Games. Almost everyone agreed with the Greek satirist Lucian, who told a sceptical visitor from Scythia: My dear Anacharsis, if it were time for the Olympic Games, or the Isthmian or Panathenaic Games, the events there would themselves teach you that the energy we give to athletics is not wasted ...
... impudent disregard of common decency,—at once its cause and effect—there grew up a prevalence of moral corruption, but for which the Roman world would not have succumbed with such nerveless ease to Scythia and its populous multitude. Keshav —What then? I do not deny it. Wilson —Was not that a bad effect? Keshav —By bad, I presume you mean undesirable? Wilson —That of course. Keshav ...
... Sweden. Sweden once subdued, Thinkst thou the ships that crowd the Northern seas Will stay there? Shall not Britain shake, Erin Pray loudly that the tempest rather choose The fields of Gaul? Scythia shall own our yoke, The Volga's frozen waves endure our march, Unless the young god's fancy rose-ensnared To Italian joys attracted amorously Should long for sunnier realms or lead his high Exultant ...
... either completely missing, or else goes quite unnoticed, in the life of all the Sakas. Instead of its use we have a strange practice with another plant. "Hemp," says Herodotus, 270 "grows in Scythia, a plant resembling flax, but much coarser and taller. It grows wild as well as under cultivation. The Thracians make clothes from it very like linen ones." The Sakas employ it "after a burial", in ...
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