Histories

Above and north of the neighbors of their country no one (they say) can see or travel further, because of showers of feathers;[*](See Hdt. 4.31 for Herodotus' explanation.) for earth and sky are full of feathers, and these hinder sight.

This is what the Scythians say about themselves and the country north of them. But the story told by the Greeks who live in +Black Sea [38,42] (sea) Pontus is as follows. Heracles, driving the cattle of Geryones, came to this land, which was then desolate, but is now inhabited by the Scythians.