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Hereupon he strung one of his bows - up to that time he had carried
two - and showed her how to fasten the belt. Then he gave both bow
and belt into her hands. Now the belt had a golden goblet attached to
its clasp. So after he had given them to her, he went his way; and
the woman, when her children grew to manhood, first gave them
severally their names. One she called Agathyrsus, one Gelonus, and
the other, who was the youngest, Scythes. Then she remembered the
instructions she had received from Hercules, and, in obedience to his
orders, she put her sons to the test. Two of them, Agathyrsus and
Gelonus, proving unequal to the task enjoined, their mother sent them
out of the land; Scythes, the youngest, succeeded, and so he was
allowed to remain. From Scythes, the son of Hercules, were
descended the after kings of Scythia; and from the circumstance of the
goblet which hung from the belt, the Scythians to this day wear
goblets at their girdles. This was the only thing which the mother of
Scythes did for him. Such is the tale told by the Greeks who dwell
around the Pontus.
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