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Crossing the Tanais they journeyed eastward a distance of three days'
march from that stream, and again northward a distance of three days'
march from the Palus Maeotis. Here they came to the country where
they now live, and took up their abode in it. The women of the
Sauromatae have continued from that day to the present to observe their
ancient customs, frequently hunting on horseback with their husbands,
sometimes even unaccompanied; in war taking the field; and wearing the
very same dress as the men.
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