Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

But as regards foreign customs, the Scythians (like others) very much shun practising those of any other country, and particularly of Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas, as was proved in the case of Anacharsis and also of Scyles.

For when Anacharsis was coming back to the Scythian country after having seen much of the world in his travels and given many examples of his wisdom, he sailed through the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont and put in at +Cyzicus [27.9,40.4167] (Perseus) Cyzicus;