Histories

Geryones lived west of the +Black Sea [38,42] (sea) Pontus,[*](Very far west, Gadira being identified with Cadiz.) settled in the island called by the Greeks Erythea, on the shore of Ocean near Gadira, outside the pillars of Heracles. As for Ocean, the Greeks say that it flows around the whole world from where the sun rises, but they cannot prove that this is so.

Heracles came from there to the country now called Scythia (region (general)), AsiaScythia, where, encountering wintry and frosty weather, he drew his lion's skin over him and fell asleep, and while he slept his mares, which were grazing yoked to the chariot, were spirited away by divine fortune.