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On the opposite side of the Gerrhus is the Royal district, as it is
called: here dwells the largest and bravest of the Scythian tribes,
which looks upon all the other tribes in the light of slaves. Its
country reaches on the south to Taurica, on the east to the trench dug
by the sons of the blind slaves, the mart upon the Palus Maeotis,
called Cremni (the Cliffs), and in part to the river Tanais.
North of the country of the Royal Scythians are the Melanchaeni
(Black-Robes), a people of quite a different race from the
Scythians. Beyond them lie marshes and a region without inhabitants,
so far as our knowledge reaches.
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