The Iranian language spoken by the ancient Scythians

Usage examples of scythian.

His death, which has been imputed to his own despair, left the reins of government in the hands of Withimer, who, with the doubtful aid of some Scythian mercenaries, maintained the unequal contest against the arms of the Huns and the Alani, till he was defeated and slain in a decisive battle.

Scythian camp onto the grasslands, where they were able to secure a Bactrian gelding with an empty saddle and trailing bridle leathers.

The Bastarnae are properly classed as Scythians and at this time had crossed the Ister and subdued the part of Moesia opposite them, then the Triballi who live near it, and the Dardani who inhabit the Triballian country.

Scythians and their Kievan allies had been quiet for nearly fifty years.

Gauls, Germans, Scythians, Sarmatians, Massagetae and other peoples of the steppes and forests were barbarians.

But it is seldom acknowledged that he was bested in battle and executed by an amazonian queen, ruler of the Massagetae, a Scythian people.

Actually, the Massagetae drove out the Scythians from the trans-Caspian area and replaced them.

Then he passed the Thracian mountains, and many a barbarous tribe, Paeons and Dardans and Triballi, till he came to the Ister stream, and the dreary Scythian plains.

For never yet before had they seen seafaring ships, neither the Scythians mingled with the Thracians, nor the Sigynni, nor yet the Graucenii, nor the Sindi that now inhabit the vast desert plain of Laurium.

And they passed the Scythian archers, and the Tauri who eat men, and the wandering Hyperboreai, who feed their flocks beneath the pole-star, until they came into the northern ocean, the dull dead Cronian Sea.

We were all agreed that the sea route is endless, and that the trail from Bactria to the east is not passable because of the Scythian tribes.

Gauls, Germans, Scythians, Sarmatians, and Dacians were considered barbarian.

Greeks of Sinde and the Chersonnesus had made about raiding incursions by the sons of King Scilurus, dead now, but the craftsman of a Scythian state of Cimmeria which had not entirely collapsed after he died.

Honorius produced the skull that the Scythian had given to him, with its human face and apelike cranium.

Scythians travelling in their caravans, the Egyptians tilling their fields, the Phnicians merchandising, the Cilicians robbing and plundering, the Spartans flogging their children, and the Athenians perpetually quarrelling and going to law with one another.