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After the taking of Babylon, an expedition was led by Darius into
Scythia. Asia abounding in men, and vast sums flowing into the
treasury, the desire seized him to exact vengeance from the Scyths,
who had once in days gone by invaded Media, defeated those who met
them in the field, and so begun the quarrel. During the space of
eight-and-twenty years, as I have before mentioned, the Scyths
continued lords of the whole of Upper Asia. They entered Asia in
pursuit of the Cimmerians, and overthrew the empire of the Medes,
who till they came possessed the sovereignty. On their return to their
homes after the long absence of twenty-eight years, a task awaited
them little less troublesome than their struggle with the Medes. They
found an army of no small size prepared to oppose their entrance. For
the Scythian women, when they saw that time went on, and their
husbands did not come back, had intermarried with their slaves.
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