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Aristeas also, son of Caystrobius, a native of Proconnesus, says
in the course of his poem that wrapt in Bacchic fury he went as far as
the Issedones. Above them dwelt the Arimaspi, men with one eye;
still further, the gold-guarding griffins; and beyond these, the
Hyperboreans, who extended to the sea. Except the Hyperboreans,
all these nations, beginning with the Arimaspi, were continually
encroaching upon their neighbours. Hence it came to pass that the
Arimaspi drove the Issedonians from their country, while the
Issedonians dispossessed the Scyths; and the Scyths, pressing upon
the Cimmerians, who dwelt on the shores of the Southern Sea, forced
them to leave their land. Thus even Aristeas does not agree in his
account of this region with the Scythians.
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